Re: Place Boards Yes, I quite like the idea of electric fence post markers. I think placeboards are more useful though - I can't see the advantage of a pole over a placeboard. Charlie can see a placeboard in short grass for 200m, I just move to longer grass if I want to fade it (I have't got to the point of fading it though, because Charlie is funny with distance). Now I've trained the placeboards, I'll just use them. There is the added problem that Charlie retrieves the blinkin' electric fence poles. : Yup, he pulls them right out of the ground, does victory laps with them, then delivers them to hand. On the distance thing, I found that it's been difficult to proof. I've had to take very baby steps with Charlie, otherwise he'll stall. Eg, he'll run across a field, but I'd have to drastically reduce the distance if I then asked him to run along a hedge. The trainer says as soon as he finds a dummy on a placeboard this will change immediately. I was due to do that before he went on rest, so can't wait to get back to it.
Re: Place Boards For the first time ever today I put 2 mats down and had a go casting, I can't believe it but Charlie got it first time no problem I thought I would clicker train it as per Jo's video but he thought I was doing "non cued look at me" and came to me for his treat - bless : so without a clicker for us Mind you we were only in the hall way : xx
Re: Place Boards [quote author=JulieT link=topic=10822.msg161297#msg161297 date=1430847859]... Charlie retrieves the blinkin' electric fence poles. : Yup, he pulls them right out of the ground, does victory laps with them, then delivers them to hand.... [/quote] Gotta love Charlie's zest for life 8)
I did this vid a couple of weeks ago to contribute to Barbara's placeboard thread. Charlie doesn't need placeboards for the cues "left" and "front" now but this is how I trained them. Charlie sits on the boards very straight, so the cue "left" ended up meaning sit in a heel position lined up straight with the direction I'm facing. This puts his shoulders square to send him for a retrieve. [Click on pic for vid]left front by julieandcharlie julieandcharlie, on Flickr
I thought I'd try to revive this thread, since a few people have started using placeboards recently. I did a bit of a refresher session with Charlie today. He did really well, and absolutely loved it. I think that we have enough steadiness now to start putting dummies on the placeboards, which will increase his motivation hugely, and I think then I can then start to increase the distance sufficient to start fading them out on my left and right cues. I just love how enthusiastic he is about this work. placeboards2 by Julie T, on Flickr placeboards4 by Julie T, on Flickr placeboards5 by Julie T, on Flickr placeboard1 by Julie T, on Flickr
I reckon other placeboard fans will join me if I keep posting.........maybe.... Anyway, today I started to "fade out" a placeboard on a few cues. This is a stepping stone to getting rid of the placeboards completely. I've found on absolutely lots of things, I've just removed the placeboard and Charlie is still able to do whatever it was that I'd asked him to do with the assistance of a placeboard, which is great. But I thought I'd do it "properly" for my "back" cue. So I started off today by putting the placeboard into grass. He knew it was there, because he'd seen me put it there, but he could no longer see it (or could barely see it, more like). Here it is: in grass by Julie T, on Flickr And the cue still worked. to board in grass by Julie T, on Flickr
Fantastic!! It can be hard to work out how to properly fade something like that but the long grass idea is great. Also great that he's able to respond even just going cold turkey on the placeboard.
