So yesterday you saw how I'm teaching Gustavo his dogwalk. We patch it together on real dogwalks every time we see one (like how often do you just see a dogwalk?) or on my contract trainer of a wobbly patio table thing. A-frame though, is all about Hauling Ass. So we go practice on a real one every time we can. He gets a click when he hits the yellow paint (which so far is almost Every Single Time!) and then he runs out for the reward that I either throw or is waiting in his tupperware.
I can be pretty far away already, I always run really, really fast too. It is like a race.
I have to watch careful so I don't click if he misses it. But I think he's getting it. I think I'm going to raise it a bit soon.
He's the first dog I've trained all by myself. Without really asking for much advice, or having him in a class. Just doing things the way that I want to try and that I think will work for him. This isn't neccessarily a good thing. I don't have proven results to swear by and I'm not always the most disciplined trainer. I obsess on my canopy color and whether my shoes are ugly. My dogs screw up sometimes and I have never, ever won a Steeplechase Finals. Except with Hobbes. And I didn't train him so that doesn't really count. But I just have this feeling that this is all going to work. And it's just kind of funner this way.
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My son tells me that many things in life should be funner, among them "funner" as a legitimate form of "more fun." "Funner" is just a funner word. I'm thinking maybe the key to life, not to mention agility training, is making it funner.
I agree. I hear it so much at work I think we should all say it. Agility is just funner than other dog sports. Hey, Jim and I liked your letter to the editor yesterday, Laura. Thanks.
great running contact, gustavo!
i think training our dogs by ourselves had lotsa benefits, coz afterall we are the one that really understand them...n we know which training methods suit them best...
I am amazed you spend money on Ikeaware when you have all kinds of containers around the house. Plastic drink bottles, cool whip containers etc.
One of the reasons I hate Ikea is that it is hard to get out of there without buying stuff like a $5 set of nine million tupperwares and 4000 tiny little candles for only a buck and then $50 later you have a carload full of crap and they actually were out of that thing that you went to Ikea for.
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