After our amazing day at the West Of England Border Collie Club show, I have entered Loki in some obedience shows. We are doing Cefn Coed, CwmBran, Cheltenham and Taunton. We are also going to Golden Valley and Caerphilly agility shows. This will be a busy year as there are the flyball tournaments to fit in too!!
I took him out into the garden to train the other day and discovered that if I’m not feeling 100% and don’t put a lot of effort into working with him, he doesn’t bother either!
Today we went out in the garden and in the 20 minutes we were training, the want and attitude were there in bucket loads!!
We started with small left circles to get him in the correct position and to remind him that he has to be “on” my leg, then from left circles we added a short straight line – lovely, attention and constant contact with my leg.
We then tried small right circles and after a shaky start, he was much more consistent in his position.
His presents are much better – have to work on his wait though, he is enjoying the training too much lol.
I will have to remember to only do one, maybe two retrieve training bits at one time as he gets over excited and starts being silly!!!! I am pleased with his work so far. Let’s hope for some dry weather so we can consolidate our work so far.
It hasn’t been easy trying to remember how we taught turns years ago ( I haven’t trained a dog for competition obedience for 12+ years – it’s a long time to think back!! It’s coming though, once you get into the right frame of mind and in a training situation, it just sort of pops back into the memory again.
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