LilBailey

Does any one know if you can download the sessions or you just have to watch online? My home web connection is bad and drops out a lot, I also wonder if I would have the time to watch them as theu were uploaded.

http://www.cleanrun.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&Product_ID=2879 Facebook jusst became even more evil. This popped up. Sounds like a good book anyone else have an opinion?

Just wondering what he will be covering in this day?

Thanks for the advice everyone. Turns out you need to send the original certificate in to get the title and we no longer have the original. It go water damaged and to get a new one was a stat dec and a fee so we never worried about it. In hinesite maybe I should have. I'm going to Google my little but off and see if I can find a picture of a title certificate and mock one up.

Wow sounds interesting would love to know how this turns out. I have read about teaching blink to help a dog relax but not sure how to do it.

Oh No I can't find the forms on the new website. HELP

Thanks for the info guys. I will get on to it. A new reg cert will be nice hers is long lost. Only an associate so not much on it but still nice. I have a few Flyball bits, photos, his pass cards, a mini motivator. Will see what else I can find. So the VCA stuff will look good. Might email someone from NADAC and see if they have anything or at least what she was up too.

I have just a quick question about getting your Agility Titles. Hubby got his JD with his dog shortly before she passed away. I am making up a collection of things to go in a large frame for him. Do the VCA issue certificates or something for the titles? and if so how do I go about getting it?

Hmm I have been thinking about getting something like these but i'm not sure exactally what to do with them. I have seen large ones with all four feet on them but what else can you do and what on earth would you get a dog to do with the small ones. Do I need to think outside the box?

Ok so from reading everyones comments I will up the reinforsment rate (am using a clicker) making sure I'm very calm (have been doing that to make sure I'm not cuing other things)and def look into more "its your choice" as I have looked a little. Stay will come when she can hold a sit for more than a micro second, then I can think about cueing it. "bed" is the cue for going to bed and it is a seerate thing to stay. It is the only time she can be remotely still when not in a crate or out the back (in the laundry) without humans. Hypo dogs sometimes I wonder while I like em that way. :p

Ok so as the title says really. I have done a heap of Googleing and thought I would ask for a few DOLer tried and tested methods. She is very good with the cicker but can't sit still. Like I mean hardly at all. She can sit in her bed inside on the cue "bed" but I have to reinforce a lot still or she gets out then runs back to it again. I have never had a dog so fidgity, She can't hold a sit even while I don't move let alone atempt to move. Her sits are long enought to click and feed but that is it. I have a few ideas but looking for DOLer experience.

I used to have a healer x that only had 3 legs (hers was a front one. Her chest muscles and others were built up more to cope with the changed pressure. I think that so long as the dog was fit then his rear muscles would compensate. Rear ends give power and push up over jumps. It is the front that takes the impact of landing after a jump, stopping on a contact, a bouncing see saw. If he coped well at training and was enjoying it I can't see why you couldn't compete.

What is the 101 things to do with a box game? I would love to find some more quiet games to play indoors with them as I can't do much when Bubby is around he steals the treats and the target and chucks toys to the dogs. LOL. But when he is in bed the lounge is very close to him and I wake him up sometimes training. (bad mummy) Sitting in a chair is probably a good idea as I am trying to get them to interact with other objects ATM. One the weave poles and One to drop in a target.

SLightly newbie question here but are some of these changes seem to be about "saftey" that could actully be overcome with training.

Wasn't having a dig at you TW. Sorry if you took it that way.

I have a very clicker savy dog. Well 2 and working on the 3rd still. All will offer me behavours but I am finding that I am giving suttle hints to what I want. I noticed a few nights ago I was moving around a lot and so stopped. So did the behavour I was trying to shape. Then I paid a little more attention the next time I went out and bingo I'm cueing stuff with out meaning too. I tried not to but I'm not sure how to not move LOL. Does any one have a similar problem or an idea on how to fix mine. LOL

I would have thought that the diffrences between equipment and rules would be to give people choice. I know that I don't like to go to NADAC as the courses seem more suited to smaller dogs. Also they have a different way to run comps and diffrent opinions on other things. (wont get into it I just don't agree) even though I could get passes and titles in NADAC I choose not to run it and to run ANKC even though I don't get passes atm. There is choice OS too I thought. There is 2 different ways to do flyball with 2 fairly different sets of rules. It is all about choice, and what works for you and your dog.

Well done Jess I was watching some of the masters runs, Darcy looked good. Boy that ground was hard to move on though.

Hmm So I'm thinkng now that I could use "spot" for the feet on target and maybe "Hit it" for drop on it as this is to transfer to Agility anyway. Thanks guys always helpfull

So I'm having trouble with comands. When I come up with a new exersize or trick I struggle with what word to put to it. Thinking about when I'm going to use it, what else it might sound like and what the action is. So I started writing a dictonary of the words I use to get my dogs to do something so that when I need a new one I have a refernce point. Still getting stuck on a few so I thought I would see what other people did. I'm having the main trouble with naming these Feet on a target (CD) Nose touch on a target Drop on target Wait on the end of dog walk/Aframe I can't use touch as I use that for a nose to hand touch. The dogs can do these exersices (well some each) I would like them to do them all as I think it would really helo with my Agility.

Jess. If the bar dropping is more when she stretches out and runs faster it may be that she doesn't quite know how to collect herself and put in a 1/2 stride to take the jump. I looked into dropping bars/running flat as having flyball dogs they are encouraged to run flat and fast when you get to agility this doesn't work so well. The book Jumping from A-Z is great and talks about exersizes to help. Learing about not touching the bar sounds like a good one too. Also where is the sports vet you take your girls to? I have never been overly impressed with any of the vets up here.

Hi Just wondering how people make averything fit in. I look at my life sometimes and wonder. I have to remind myself that my dogs arn't progessing as fast as I wuld like them too b/c I simply don't have the time to put in as much work as I would like. At the momment I'm tring to teach our little rescue that she can come inside but sitting on the floor or in the dog bed is ok but on the couch is not. She is very Cliker savvy and VERY food motivated. Things are getting better but it is hard to fit in many little sessions when I'm not home and she is so full on that I can't just have her inside all evening to work with her it is a short session process for now. I'm Lucky hubby is a stay at home Dad so the dogs arn't at home alone very often and they get exersized but I train them. How do you fit in everything, Work, Family, Housework, Hobbies if you have any that arn't dogs.

Are you aloud to trial him heeling on the right as he has a disability??? What if you had him looking in to you more so that he could see both you and where he was going with his left eye. I'm thinking of those dogs you see that have almost got there head on backwards they are staring into the face of the handler??

I asume the the OP understands the theroy of clicker training from her course. If you want something that looks really clever try teaching to give paw but instead of putting your hand out for it lift your foot. ie you face dog, lift right foot = dog lifts left foot. Like a mirror. Increase distance to look even better. Paw on own nose is very cute too.

I have just looked at this thread and feel your pain. The last post by you suggests to me that Bo may have needed the support of the other dogs to make him feel safe and not need to react...Just a thought. Another thought is that maybe it is all of the work that you put in to him that has made him the dog he is now. I myself have a sog that was highley reactive with other dogs and her owner put in 10 months worth of work and has improved the general behavour of her so much she is a different dog to she was when she came out of the pound. BUT only at our house at the ladys house who had her she was fighting constantly with her other dog. The change of environment has aloud her to relax and display all of the things that she was taught. That was a bit of a ramble I'm sorry but just trying to make the point that I think you have improved the life of Bo even though he may not be able to live that life with you.