The Homework Thread!!!

CaveCanem said:
Like Dax, B has pretty much been elevated to sainthood since the new arrival!!!
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Having a norty new upstart really puts previous ishoos into perspective. :p

Ricoh is also a noisy wrigglebag, he whinges and fidgets if there's food about, I have learnt to keep my hands away from my pockets/treat bag/bumbag. I'm not sure if yowling is any better than barking. :o
 
Yeah, working on it doesn't matter where the feck my hands are or if I am dancing a jig, if you're not looking at my face, you don't get the food or the ball, quite time consuming :p
 
Currently ignoring the wingey/woofy play with me monster dex has turned into- V annoying- poor neighbours!

Continuing with clicky treaty on sight of dog! He just about managed to hold it together when a black Lab legged it up to us on Tuesday..... (just!!)
 
Tyson is learning to use his brain! We're doing obedience training and he's absoultely quality at all the object recognition stuff, and I can send him out to the right round a pole and back to me, same to the left.
We've just started working on retreive and scent which is not his forte (sp?) at all..
He doesnt care for toys or chasing/bringing back. - At the moment Im throwing a little bottle full of treats then when he touches it to sniff it I open it and give him a treat from inside it. He still doesnt dive after it when its thrown to try and pick it up though. He thinks its just like the 'touch' game where he gets a sweety for touching a certain object :o
 
Dylan: Jumping up does not mean Hello, you never did this as a pup so why now???
Speak, he barely barks so not sure if he will ever get it or not, might try the click and treat thing.
Oh and other than a full on fence (rented house with hedge) how to keep the bugger in the garden, we are upping th electric fence height at the weekend see if that works.



Teal: Down (bum sticky up in air is what he normally does)
Stop, dont just turn round and look at me, stop means sit down and pay attention mr braincell of a gold fish :D
Stop barking and going for strange dogs, your not aggressive so why go for strange dogs on walk. The trainer at the local classes thinks I am making a problem up!!!!!!! Hes getting better, he now heels and just grumbles now.
 
We're working on Stand, can get it next to me, but struggling with the distance.
Done stay with breaking eye contact last night, sit stay, turn around and walk away with back to dog, actually done that really well, only slipped once.
Would really love her to not want to try and kill every other dog in sight, working on ignoring them, however fathers temperament isn't making this easy (another reason that all dogs should be neutered, when the fathers a real miserable little ba$t4rd it comes out in the pups).
mastered Bang (dead whatever command you give).
 
Hmmmmmm - given up with the terrors, they can rat and come to call as long as they are not chasing the hens I consider them trained.

Others are good but as for the Fox Hound pups - you name it and I am trying to train it. Well, that is an exaggeration, no need to teach them to sit and stay (praise be) just getting them ALL (4) to come to call, not to trip me up, chew my shoe laces as I am walking, come to call, learn their names and come to call - together!
 
This week we are Trying To Stop Eating Sheep Poo - vocal correction, backed up with lead correction, rewarded with food.
My homework is scanning the horizon for the grey/green/brown coloured poo, on the grey/green/brown coloured forest track, so I can see it and offer the correction before he gets to it and snaffles it :p

Volume control, general control coming along :p protection work is MASSIVELY EXCITING and he loves to go WHEEE up in the air and cannot wait for that bit (it comes at the end), so trying to keep a lid on his excitement levels and stop him spinning and squealing......
And he is now tracking nicely (only very short ones) instead of the waterskiing on dry land impersonation.....
 
Bankrupting self on next 600 collar type in the hopes of finding "the one".

When off lead come means come- not stop wait for me to catch up- then go again.... yes I was the nutter in the field running AWAY from my dog....

Down at a distance- sit no probs, down = frowning head tilty face.
 
Darcy is very *ood wit* recall but i*nored me twice today on a walk in fact once s*e ran passed me:mad:. So lots of work and very remiss of me allowin* er to lapse. Been watc*in Youtube tonite and some excellent videos on t*ere.

Tomorrow is anot*er day.:)
 
I have to work on recall, and heelwork and getting him interested in something, anything that he wants to carry. Only had our first 1:1 gundog puppy session so 10 mins max a day , and lots of fun.
 
Ricoh did a full 45 minutes of credible heelwork today, weaving in and out of two other reactive dogs, changes of direction and speed, sudden stops, bum instantly on the floor with every stop (and in the correct place, unlike Dax who spins and sits on your feet in front of you). I can have him walking along to heel, say 'down', have him lie down, walk briskly ahead and shout 'heel' to pick him back up again without stopping. :D

Having been really wibbly following last week tonight was exactly what I needed, I couldn't be more pleased (and smug :o).

Fings wot need work: Transferring all of this to the real world on walks. He will still howl and lunge at dogs given the opportunity but is easily distracted with food, it's just a faff when I have both dogs, I'm fumbling to hold two leads, get treats out and to fend off off-lead dogs. :rolleyes:

He leaked urine on his bed last night and another dribble this morning while he was awake, I was panicking about a UTI but he's not done it again since midday and seems perfectly well in himself, pending another prod and poke in the morning I'll decide whether to take him to the vet for the morning clinic.

Daxy's task for Friday is to show a bit of bloody enthusiasm, I know it was warm last week but she was really hard work to motivate for anything except the weaves. :confused: As soon as Ricoh can be trusted with a new bunch of dogs I think he'll be swapping with her, he's a lot more driven and I think will take to it well.
 
blackcob said:
Ricoh did a full 45 minutes of credible heelwork today, weaving in and out of two other reactive dogs, changes of direction and speed, sudden stops, bum instantly on the floor with every stop (and in the correct place, unlike Dax who spins and sits on your feet in front of you). I can have him walking along to heel, say 'down', have him lie down, walk briskly ahead and shout 'heel' to pick him back up again without stopping. :D



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Hurumpgh- can I send mine to you for a few months? :D
 
I have the opposite problem, pup is fine out and about but a gobby little shite on the field :o think it is a case of 'well that dog over there is having fun and you're making me do heelwork, booooooooo!'

We also need to work on 'not throwing oneself off great heights and landing on one's little floppy bones' - not long now til prelim x-rays, not long now....
 
Sadly, despite all of the above, I think he'd still eat him alive at the moment. :p

Dax would probably be really pleased though, if a little confused, she kept looking up whenever 'Max' was called at the BBQ, imagine Dex, Dax and Max all in one place and trying to call the right one. :D
 
Well I seem to have ended up doing the homework with Pickle, as M88 has got a couple of weeks locum work, then is off to Fiji at the end of the month. Main thing at the moment is working on recall, the little horror can walk through all our fencing as he is so tiny so need to get him listening to me. Luckily he is very food orientated (read that as greedy little sod) and is coming flying back to me at the moment. He also does a very nice sit (with clicker) for his bowl of food, but have started trying to introduce a wait which is proving a challenge. I need another pair of hands to pin him to the floor whilst giving the wait command.:D
 
blackcob said:
Dax would probably be really pleased though, if a little confused, she kept looking up whenever 'Max' was called at the BBQ, imagine Dex, Dax and Max all in one place and trying to call the right one. :D
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Oh dear that could be a touch confusing LOL- but at least we'd get a dog of some sort come over!! :D

CaveCanem said:
I have the opposite problem, pup is fine out and about but a gobby little shite on the field :o think it is a case of 'well that dog over there is having fun and you're making me do heelwork, booooooooo! '
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This is dex exactly- " but over there they are carrying dumbbells over an A frame and you want me to down stay? -YEAH right!! squeeeeeeeeeeel"
 
Ah, was all about to report a great day with the Fluffy one, great focus, attention, working brilliantly, good track, good recall, when right at the last on the way back to the car he tanked off the green, down the pathway, full steam ahead to the beach. So I came around the corner expecting him to have a small furry yappy dog in his jaws, or be attached to the kite-flying man's thigh, or something equally wrong.

No, he was upside down wiggling in ecstacy for all he was worth among the remains of a big dead fish. Hmph.
 
CaveCanem said:
Ah, was all about to report a great day with the Fluffy one, great focus, attention, working brilliantly, good track, good recall, when right at the last on the way back to the car he tanked off the green, down the pathway, full steam ahead to the beach. So I came around the corner expecting him to have a small furry yappy dog in his jaws, or be attached to the kite-flying man's thigh, or something equally wrong.

No, he was upside down wiggling in ecstacy for all he was worth among the remains of a big dead fish. Hmph.
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Oh Ye of little faith.:D

He was just enjoying being a dog and you didnt appreciate his efforts.:D

Was it a smelly home journey.:D
 
He may have been forcibly curry-combed then dunked in the river before he went anywhere near my lovely clean car. There's a particularly attractive pile of fox poo on one of our other walks, conveniently located right next to a foxglove, keep spotting the flower at the last moment and howling 'nooooooooooooooooooo!'
 
Ahahahaha! Me thinks Floof has a great sense of humour.

"youz haz makes me do all dis work, being good rubbish, Iz do rolling in deadz fis ahahahahahahahaha"
 
Well, Daxy-dog totally flagged out at agility yesterday, I know it was a warm day but she was pootling about at a snail's pace, seemed happy enough but her heart really isn't in it.

It's a huge shame but it's been really beneficial for her anyway, it wasn't until someone commented on it that I realised just how good she is now compared to when we started - in between courses I can call her over to the corner, park her there while I go off and adjust the fences etc, then go and stand by the start and call her across the length of the training field to join me. She doesn't wear a lead for the entire session - magic! :)

It has been suggested that I take Ricoh next week instead. :eek: I'm dithering about whether to muzzle him or not, there's a terrier there that will BARK BARK BARK at a new dog and I think it will wind him up. He's improved a lot but will still lunge and yowl at a strange dog and trainer is a wishy washy sort who won't let me throttle him with my bare hands. :p I have no idea if he'd actually scrap or if it's all just noise. Either way I think it will do him good, he is very much more driven than Dax, I just hope he takes to it.

Just been up the high street and back to fetch some milk, took the dogs to work on nice loose lead walking together while it's a bit busier with more distractions about. OH took Dax who screamed like a banshee and pulled like a train to get to me - swapped over - Ricoh started crabbing along and spinning on the end of the lead - oh FFS, give them both here - cue a pair of calm dogs, Dax on a loose lead, Ricoh only needing the odd reminder. OH has gone upstairs to hide from my insufferable smugness. :o Just goes to show that the person putting in the hours reaps the rewards. :p

Before anyone says it, I feel I deserve a disgustingly smug post after being decidedly not smug last week. :o
 
Oh I hear ya.

I've been told I don't have one big problem as such, just lots of little small ones and that they are all me-related :o and I have a lot of work to do.
I am turning up next week drenched in lavender oil, with a spliff hanging out my mouth, with a masseuse on-call.....
 
CaveCanem said:
Oh I hear ya.

I've been told I don't have one big problem as such, just lots of little small ones and that they are all me-related :o and I have a lot of work to do.
I am turning up next week drenched in lavender oil, with a spliff hanging out my mouth, with a masseuse on-call.....
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That sounds more like a breed show to me! :D
 
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