Re: Recall Question Got my notepad and paper out ready to make flow charts and notes on your directions Rachael!!!!You and Heidrun spent a lot of time writing yesterday on a subject I started off,and I appreciate that very much,thankyou. I've had a horrible morning in the heat trailing round most of the Dog Day Care places in Dubai 'interviewing' for potential obedience classes......quite depressing!i have a solution....Rachael pack up your life immediately ,collect Obi from Daycare and en route to the airport inform your OH that you are relocating to Dubai to set up a much,much,much needed Dog Training Facility........those on offer are dire!oh and we are setting up a Flyball team too!he he he! I've found a Puppy Class that I think I will use for some socialization but it doesn't start again until september( Dex wil be 12 months.....) they have agreed to let me have a trial class in case ,as I'm suspecting Dexter will get bored,doing things he knows already but at least there will be noise and dogs going on around him.I didn't rate our first one but I was very,very green then.....will be taking some sausages and chicken this time round! Julie,I certainly have days like you have had,it's like they have forgotten everything and get the devil in them!I just shrug it off now and the next day is usually better,yours will be too.going for a mad run through the sprinklers to cool off now with my handsome one ;D
Re: Recall Question [quote author=Dexter link=topic=1928.msg15912#msg15912 date=1373363297] Got my notepad and paper out ready to make flow charts and notes on your directions Rachael!!!! [/quote] LOL, sorry about my 'stream of consciousness' posts... Sometimes you do things a certain way for years and you never really think about the rationale....then something prompts you to go "and exactly why am I doing that after all..?". Thanks for humouring my musings! Hope the puppy class has something to offer. It will probably be good to use it as a good (i.e. distracting) environment to proof a few things he is already fairly good at.
Re: Recall Question Nothing for it, Angela, you'll have to learn all you can from Heidrun and Rachel, then start up your own dog training company!
Re: Recall Question Oh Julie,don't make me run before I can walk!i tell you what though,tell me where to sign for the Instructor Course that Rachael did,I'd be all over that!
Re: Recall Question [quote author=Dexter link=topic=1928.msg15772#msg15772 date=1373256328] Hi there, When Dexter arrived to us,his Breeders sent us a list of commands he was familiar with ,very basic sit,stay etc.We were told that the recall word they had used for him with was his name......I find that strange now ( although im sure there was a genuine reason for this)but we didn't then.We were warned about using his name indiscriminately around other commands ie don't say Sit Dexter,just say Sit,keep his name for his recall.....which we have tried very hard to do,( nigh on impossible though with my neice and nephew and other visitors) I Got The Right Start and The Grade One Guide from The Gun Dog club and worked through them which has got me to where we are now which is: Dexter will recall outside from dogs and distractions reliably if I have his eye contact before I call his name....if he sees something or someone and dashes away to it then I don't stand a chance,he is deaf to me.he still checks in on me though and I usually save the situation and get him to come back by turning around and walking/running in the other direction.he gets a piece of chicken then. I am reading Total Recall now as I need to get that last step in place,reliable recall from distractions when we are outside......my worry that I'm finally getting to is this......should I change the recall word ? I'd be gutted to have to as its the first time I'm doing any dog training and I feel that slowly and surely we are getting there ,I'm quite scared at the thought of starting all over again with a new command.But do you think it is sensible to have his name as his command word to continue through to this important stage?it doesn't seem to have impeded progress yet...although we are slow.Im even nervous about getting to this last stage in case he doesn't come back and I lose all the work we have done....which is why I wanted Total Recall to work through to check I am the best equipped i can be to not cock it up! I still treat a lot,if the park is empty I gamble him with kibble,if he is playing with a dog or having a pat,he gets a piece of chicken EVERY time Thanks,any thoughts much appreciated [/quote]
Re: Recall Question I have a problem with a 6 month old lab ,at home she comes to the whistle ,knowing there will be a treat at the end ,on walks she comes,at dog club also .She doesn't chase our hens which are free range BUT on her first day of formal gundog training she saw the landowners/trainers hens ,ducks and geese ,all in a pen and would not come back to me .It seemed an age before she was herded back to me .Is she just too young .It was a classic case of but she never does that at home !!I might add that this was at the start of the day when we are doing std obedience exercises .She brought back the dummy to me later on no problems URGGH Should I stop the retrieves completely to work on the recall . Up the rewards to chicken etc ?
Re: Recall Question Definately up the rewards, they have to prove far too tempting to ignore I would tend to concentrate on the recall for now , to me its the foundation of everything to follow , you have to make you far more interesting than anything else around and high value treats are usually the best way to go . I am currently training recall on a very long line with my new rescue dog , sausage is proving to be the tempter for her, good luck x
Re: Recall Question I have a 10 year old daughter who likes to spend her life saying the dog's name (or the vast number of variations that we have) over and over again. honestly it's like a broken record. because of this i can't expect her to hear her name, it's just noise. so now, whistles are a carefully guarded resource only given to people who are going to treat them with respect and her name is just said ad nauseum. i can understand why people find whistles embarrassing. they say "i know what i'm doing" and then if something goes wrong you look a bit of a numpty. at the ripe old age of 42 i am past worrying but as a kid i would have done.
