Push to Play-Introducing offered behaviors to your training language
Shaping a Confident and Flashy Heel-Moving Foundations
This class is solely about the moving part of heeling and is the 2nd in a series of 3, taught back to back once a year. We’ll use mainly shaping, some body prompting, lots of energy and no luring to create this motivated attitude from your dog. We start with walking backwards which allows you to see your dog and teach each individual component of heeling like head position, gait, pace separate from the actual position.Then we cover how to move into straight heeling, tips on getting pushy heeling (offered behavior, it’s the key!) and different ways of reinforcing to get optimal position and motivation out of your dog. This course concentrates on covering the first 5-15 steps of straight heeling, teaching correct striding for both dog and handler, attitude, and motivation in those beginning steps. It does not cover pivots, stationary heel position or going from stationary to moving heel.
Toys – Developing Cooperation and Play
Do you have a dog that chases the ball, yet won’t bring it back? Plays keep away with toys? Tugs but won’t let go? Bites you instead of the tug? Obsesses over toys, yet won’t listen to a single thing you say? Is your dog so high in drive for toys that he can’t think? Or do you just want to channel that prey drive right from the beginning and add the attitude your dog has for tugging or chasing toys to the obedience ring?
If so, this class is for you!
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