Not Enthusiastic Anymore

[dogdayz]

agree with the advice to give her a break. I persisted way too long with classes for my collie rough and she got very bored. So she has had a full year break and been doing herding, tracking, agility, tricks instead. She will go back to obedience in the new year but not for hour long classes - she will get short bursts and we will be training her differently to keep her excited. Hopefully she will be a reformed character. I think my current two dogs have the unfortunate situation of being my first competition training attempts and experiments.

[boxagirl]

Yeah I reward for every correct behaviour, I think I should reward randomly too, then the rewards will mean more?

She CAN do it all under distractions, but sometimes she Wont because she is bored.

[boxagirl]

Ok, I've decided that if she isn't enthusiatic tommorrow night (I'll will put your suggestions into practice) I'll take Barkly for awhile (either a month, one week barks/1 week bondi, or longer) and just take Bondi to dog parks more to socialize. When our other car is fixed, I can take both of them, and take Bondi for a run and play before training, then just train Barkly. (he needs it!)

LOL my previous post looks very dramatic with the underlining

[Guest Tess32]

Yep, I'd put her on a variable reinforcement schedule...especially with basic stuff like SIT which is hardly the most exciting thing in the world.

Make sure you don't do it every 3rd time, fourth time etc...has to be random otherwise she'll figure out the pattern.

But seriously if she knows it all, I'd take a long break and concentrate on new things so she can use her brain again.

Nat

[boxagirl]

Just got back from training ;) Bondi was the best she has been in along time. She was enthusiastic, up until the last 10 minutes when it started raining

Very happy with how she was tonight, the playing with her while waiting and hyping her up worked

On the downside, we are both covered in mozzie bites!