Your Very First Obedience Trialling Dog

[ness]

Er yep much to hot for Ness .

[caffy]

I tend to do duration by time as I can't count steps and keep my eye on my dog and where I am going. I think I started with 10 seconds for Beans and Lexi - then jumped to 20 seconds and then back to 15 seconds.

The longest I have ever done is 2 3/4 minutes. After that I got sick of walking and I figured they would just keep going and going and going. :D

The idea is that you break their evening dinner into 3 containers and they have to work for each container of food. After being successful 3 times thats it for the night - you don't ask them to do anything else at all - so if you are only heeling for 10 seconds you could be on your way home in less than 2 minutes!

I only ever did duration twice a week and on most occasions it would be once per week. I would work on the other bits on a different night and as Ness said the idea is to keep pushing the dog to work longer and harder.

I use a timer.

I also look for the moment after my dog falls back then forges...perfect time to jackpot You have to have faith in your dog to push for their reward.

[ness]

Man not sure what motivated me to actually doing something tonight but both my first and my second trialling dogs just got training :D . Ness thought she would come to the party after she saw me training Kenzie so she did some dog in the box too . Kenzie is feral and I love it .