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I'm confused, the towel one? I use my powershot A70 camera which I only use for video now i have my Nkion SLR It only takes 30 seconds film though, which is a pain

Molly and her bone otherwise known as teasing Eddie

Eddie with his bone!

Awww Love that face I wish I had a bigger backyard and could do recalls in mine

haha I love the slurpee ad, his tongue is blue! My 2 love slurpees!

Ok here we go Molly Molly and Ed (ok maybe its me thats mental in this one, I couldn't stop laughing cos they couldn't catch a thing!)

Errm yeah maybe just a bit lol I've got lots of work to go on my own nerves!

hahaha I can see it now! funny boy!

Thanks Bit different to the Eddie you met at kcc, he's a different dog when there's balls involved and that offlead area!

The pool is dogs inmotion in doveton When he got a few weeks older than that we got him a vest as his bum sunk too much, and he could swim about 100 laps Now without the vest as he has built up the muslces alot he'll do about 30-40 laps Alot of them can have probs though, and their bums are so light! He originally started cos he fractured all the sesamoids in his paw when he was 3 or 4 months old, and he wasn't allowed to go for walks or run for months, we used to take him twice a week

Oh I can't see it yet

Oh good point I will do that too, alternate between just hand and voice signals

You are right, and I guess thats cos you know Eddie! Even I'm getting myself mixed up! Last night I started with treats on the table, and I walked around asked for basic things, sits, small heels and then I would say "yes" and go back to the table to reward, all this stuff you've told me before Stella, lol, I am having to retrain myself into not using the easy way of getting him to do something Do you think that there is any problem with using my hand as though I have a treat or should i be showing him that I have no treat but that I expect compliance anyway?

Without music, but this is some of their training for freestyle (the audio is a bit out) Molly Eddie I need to take some updated ones now!

We're not that good yet but here's one of Ed training

Eddie used to love the vaccuum And helping with the gardeing Singing! And his all time fav love, swimming!!!

Thanks Erny, negative punishment, that makes more sense!

Good point tollerowned If he flings it at you pick it up and walk off telling him no more Whats it called? negative reinforcement (i always get them mixed up, i mean when you withold the reward as the correction lol)

Yeah that makes sense, thanks, will start doing that as well, I use good boy alot, but yes or a click as my secondary reinforcer, so I will be able to tell him good boy through it and then he gets the food after the click I will work up the time between reinforcer and reward too, thanks

Ummm does he know gentle or anything like that? Maybe wait? lol sorry I'm picturing it

Heather I'm so sorry, I know how much you love her

Ouch! But somehow funny Can you trade him for another toy/stick/ball/tug toy to get him in closer?

Good point, use every distraction to advantage Well we went for a walk last night and I was firm with Eddie, I put my finger in my belt and anytime I felt the lead pull I stopped We walked up to the shops and back, on the way there we stopped maybe 20 times, on the way back we stopped maybe 5 I thank the weather a little lol, but mainly I think he got the idea that I was serious and wasn't going to put up with his silliness (he's not bad to walk necessarily, just he's been allowed to be in control adn go where he wants too long) Last night I let him know that I was in control, he could walk around and sniff but if that lead went tight, we stopped Stupid things like this we should have done ages ago, only I was too silly to realise the main difference between heeling and loose lead walking My short term goal, to get out of the car at kcc and have him walk loose lead into the off lead area

Very basic eg, with recall, teaching under low distraction, before taking the dog out to higher distraction Then coming back and doing more reinforcing stuff for recall under low distraction again Stella, correct me if I'm wrong, which I could be lol