Obedience In The Real World

[JulesP]

I always find it interesting when the obedience trial stuff kicks in to gear in the real world. When I go for walkies I never ask the dogs to heel, as long as they aren't pulling my arms out of their sockets I am cool with whatever they do. Today I thought I would try jogging (it was raining ). I scared the life out of poor Brock at first and when he recovered he came straight to heel and did 'fast pace' with me! It was rather funny. Me running must mean fast pace heel to him! Everytime I started to jog he did the same thing, came to heel and gave me focus. Good dog! I do like having a nicely trained beastie!

[wheres my rock]

a freind of mine demonstratd a perfect reason for obedience trianing the other day we were at kcc talking her dog was sniffing around the bbq's and we were on the other side of the drive way a car was coming so she just called the dogs nam and said sit which he did very promptly then once the car was gone she released him back to play so nice to have that kind of control that you dont need to panic

[Lablover]

a freind of mine demonstratd a perfect reason for obedience trianing the other day we were at kcc talking her dog was sniffing around the bbq's and we were on the other side of the drive way a car was coming so she just called the dogs nam and said sit which he did very promptly then once the car was gone she released him back to play so nice to have that kind of control that you dont need to panic

Try it at training at 200 yards or more with high level diversions. Its fun.

[ShellyBeggs]

I used to find walking my big black lab around the streets (he looks tough) that if he was heeling people would always stop and say how well behaved he was and give him a pat.

If he was walking even on a loose lead people would detour right around.

So it just seemed like good community manners to have him walk alongside me and he worked out it was great as everyone would stop and pat him.

Heel was handy on the bike and rollarskates as I knew he wouldn't pull me over.

Now that he is going a bit deaf I find in busy streets that hand signals was the best thing that I taught him in obedience. He often can't hear my voice over the car noise but can see the handsignals without a problem. And the recall signal he can see over a distance he definately can't hear.....

[cramet]

i was once told with my training that when jr gets a reward dont walk him as he will lose interest

so he made me run when jr had the reward to keep him focus and interested in what the training objective is