A lttle advice please David is in LA from the 2nd to 12th Feb so I am on double dog walking, I am not taking them both out together after 'squirrel gate' I am making a plan to take Charlie to lots of new locations to practise slack lead walking on country roads, tracks, field perimeters etc. and repeat them after 5 days. I want to start a non cued C&T for a look at me every time. Also I would like to train a 'touch'. I would like to do some off lead recall, should I try and use my new rabbit bungee toy as a special reward when he responds to recall and stop whistle or do I need to build up the desire a bit more, although he went pretty nuts for it when I got it out of the packaging? Sorry for all the questions and hopefully I haven't given myself too much to do :-\ Thank you xx
Re: Things to work on with Charlie I find Harley much prefers a tennis ball over food for a reward. If Charlie gets excited over the rabbit bungee toy I would use that
Re: Things to work on with Charlie With the rabbit skin tug, it probably depends on the dog...my Charlie hadn't played tug before so he sort of said "what? I can pull it?!?!" So we had to build it up. It had quite a gradual effect, before he was sort of hoping his tug might be on offer... Really importantly, you need a take it and an end cue that will work when the dog is really excited and a dog that will never grab the handle (near your hands!) when excited. Those things took a bit of time to put in place for us. Also, my Charlie can get into a fixed pull, with his bum in the air and front paws down, so we needed to deal with that by doing a walking tug (in a serious tug of war, Charlie would win! ;D ;D ;D ). So it depends on your dog, really...but I'd say just play tug, have a good time and see what you've got...
