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I mistakenly tried to upload this down video in the wrong blog. Hope this is the right one. She sometimes copies Chester with down, but this is her attempt at down.
I need you to do the Down as shown in the videos. What you are doing is the Down without any shaping/molding of Sophie. You need THAT shaping/molding/handling as part of the training as this is a psychological imprinting for the puppy to understand you DO have the position of authority.
One of the reasons I am an Advanced Koehler Instructor is because ALL of the training always begins with hands on shaping/molding/touching. This communicates volumes to the learning dog AND it trains the handler to learn to be in a safe position at all times while training, it trains the handler to feel with their hands their dogs body (is it tense or relaxed?) and it creates a bond of understanding. Without the physical touch, what you are doing with Sophie eliminates all of that vitally important interaction. And what Sophie is doing is 'creeping' which is a dreaded disease which will translate into every other exercise. So her formal Stays will become hard to maintain because she's been taught to believe that 'dreaded creeping disease' is allowed-:)
Make sense? Please redo the way my video shows how to do.
I mistakenly tried to upload this down video in the wrong blog. Hope this is the right one. She sometimes copies Chester with down, but this is her attempt at down.
ReplyDeleteNancy,
ReplyDeleteI need you to do the Down as shown in the videos. What you are doing is the Down without any shaping/molding of Sophie. You need THAT shaping/molding/handling as part of the training as this is a psychological imprinting for the puppy to understand you DO have the position of authority.
One of the reasons I am an Advanced Koehler Instructor is because ALL of the training always begins with hands on shaping/molding/touching. This communicates volumes to the learning dog AND it trains the handler to learn to be in a safe position at all times while training, it trains the handler to feel with their hands their dogs body (is it tense or relaxed?) and it creates a bond of understanding. Without the physical touch, what you are doing with Sophie eliminates all of that vitally important interaction. And what Sophie is doing is 'creeping' which is a dreaded disease which will translate into every other exercise. So her formal Stays will become hard to maintain because she's been taught to believe that 'dreaded creeping disease' is allowed-:)
Make sense? Please redo the way my video shows how to do.
Roxanne