Gamby Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Hi all I'm after suggestions to use as part of a club's dog demonstration team including a combination of Obedience and Tricks or one or the other. I've thought of two types of teams. One that has a limited number of members with dogs that can work as a well oiled team. The other could be members who's dogs are friendly, can interact with people and children and can be good and a bit naughty at times to get the crowd enjoying the antics of the dogs. It's nearly the end of the school holidays and time to go back to training so I need some quick help. Looking forward to reading your replies attachment=201271:Gambit__...gether_2.jpg] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipsqueak Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 in a rush at the moment and cannot find exactly what i want. if you go to youtube & search on dog demonstration team, there are a lot of videos which might give you some ideas... for example... this one would have to be my all time favourite demo team - video quality is exceptionally poor, but the quality of the work from dogs and handlers is worth persisting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamby Posted January 4, 2010 Author Share Posted January 4, 2010 Thanks Pip, I appreciate your time finding something for me to look at. Some of the moves are very good. My mind is racing with ideas but it all depends on the dogs that will be part of the team/teams in a rush at the moment and cannot find exactly what i want. if you go to youtube & search on dog demonstration team, there are a lot of videos which might give you some ideas... for example... this one would have to be my all time favourite demo team - video quality is exceptionally poor, but the quality of the work from dogs and handlers is worth persisting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipsqueak Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 (edited) Okay - I'm back with a bit more time, though I still can't find the link to the video that I want. I am frequently disappointed in the demonstration teams that I see... but then I ask myself if I have a different expectation of a demo team than the general public would. I *want* to see precision heeling with multiple dogs either offlead, or with totally loose leads - but that would probably bore Joe Bloggs senseless. Also, I am frequently disappointed when I see demo teams who, when they do their heeling, are strangling their dogs with the lead/collar in order to keep in formation. Joe Bloggs probably wants to see flashy tricks, agility, and "doggy dancing" to music. If you were to ask me to start a demo team, it would probably be a compromise - precision heeling to music. There was a Golden Retriever demo team at Crufts, and from memory, all they did was heeling and turns and stays, but in pretty formations like marching bands do. If you have reeaaally stable dogs, you could add individual recalls, which always look effective. Edited January 4, 2010 by ~pip~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallistar Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Hi allI'm after suggestions to use as part of a club's dog demonstration team including a combination of Obedience and Tricks or one or the other. I've thought of two types of teams. One that has a limited number of members with dogs that can work as a well oiled team. The other could be members who's dogs are friendly, can interact with people and children and can be good and a bit naughty at times to get the crowd enjoying the antics of the dogs. It's nearly the end of the school holidays and time to go back to training so I need some quick help. Looking forward to reading your replies attachment=201271:Gambit__...gether_2.jpg] Hi Gambit, It will depend on how many dogs that you have avail and the skill of the dogs.. I have done demos and it was a hoot. The biggest thing that got the crowd in was when we did tunneling ( humans being the tunnel with their dogs in the drop position) and Jumping.. but you must have stable dogs to do this. I will pm you later when I have more time to explain Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tassie Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 A thing we used to do when we had enough UD dogs was to do a scent discrimination exercise with different coloured painted dumbbells as the articles. We would each leave our dogs, show the audience the colour of our dumbbell, then go out and put the dumbbell down in the same small area. We'd then take turns to send our dogs to retrieve their own coloured dumbbell - with the commentator doing a spiel about how dogs maybe weren't colour blind after all. Usually went down well, and if it goes pear-shaped, with a good commentator you can cover it. And as has been said, audiences can enjoy the 'failures'. We did an agility demo at a Hobart Royal one year - did it with the experienced dogs first, then had a couple of inexperienced ones, who each wore L plates. Crowd loved it (dogs were still under recall control - just not agility control - it was 'make your own course'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 A bit of a tangent but we did a demo at pet expo - I did some modified UD exercises - directed retrieving with teddy bears, find the $50 note as a scent discrimination type exercise but what we found was they liked to be included. So we got a couple of kids out of the audience and had them place the paper notes out etc. The best bit was that we had some relatively stable dogs who would work for anybody so we set up a simple agility course (really low height jumps and a tunnel from memory) and allowed the kids to take turns running our dogs through the equipment. Both kids and dogs had a blast. And of course it was only a straight forward line of jumps up and back so by the time the dogs had done it a few times or even once or twice the dogs were pretty much point and shoot and while the kids thought they were handling the dogs the dogs would have done it on their own . I also took my UD gear down and during one of the spare times when the floor wasn't being used just did a training session oblivious to the world and and even that drew a crowd . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamby Posted January 6, 2010 Author Share Posted January 6, 2010 Thank you all for your replies. You have certainly put my mind at ease and have given me some wonderful ideas. I can't wait to get together with the demo group to see what they think about the ideas. For a fun thing I need to ask the owner of a delightful Golden Retriever who was taking part in the fastest recall race. Her dog took off and was happily going to her then decided it would rather take a present to her. He turned around came back to the group of presents that were on the ground, picked one up and took off again to give his handler the present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmoo Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Hi go to the Golden Retriever Club Vic site and watch our demo it was great fun to do and very well recieved at the Melb ROYAL in 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvsdogs Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 My obedience club used to have a demo team many years ago when I 1st started. I was never in it, but some weeks the chief instructor used to give us the exercises that they used. As shown in a couple of the videos there was the straight line with 1/2 & 1/2 facing the opposite direction doing a circle. The centre dogs doing very slow pace & up to an energetic normal pace. Another thing we did was to start heeling in a straight line & the outside 2 dogs were told to stand with the handlers keeping pace with the line. Eventually all dogs were on a stand in an arrow pattern, when the last dog was standing the line of handlers turned to face their dogs. Then the dogs were recalled in the order that they were left. We also used to heel in a straight line, following each other& heeling in a square pattern with left turns, with the front dog about turning & weaving through the line. Each dog had a turn & all returned to their original place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kallistar Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Hi go to the Golden Retriever Club Vic site and watch our demo it was great fun to do and very well recieved at the Melb ROYAL in 2009 Yeap it was well recieved wasn't it mmoo? I had a blast doing the demo all the days that Iit was on. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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