Sunday SK

This week was the week of changes. On Thursday was a new AG class and on Sunday was a new SK class. So now our AG and SK trainer is the same person -  Anne Tammiksalu.

• First of all we show to the trainer how Ruudi heels. Ruudi comes around me. I do not know why we chose this way, because there is an other way as well - dog comes right away on your side. As there are multiple (possible) negative effects when the dog comes around (let alone that Ruudi could be quite slow when heeling in that way), we decided to learn the new way. How to teach that? At the beginning the dog faces to you and then you step back leading the dog to come and turn around behind you. And then you lead him to come by your side. Another thing to figure out is the new command because the "kõrval" ("heel") was already used. Alternative could be "sivulle" (Finnish word for heeling).
• Secondly we practiced the fixedness as it is necessary in AG and everyone in our training group really needs this training. Although the results were quite good, this needs to be practiced more.
• Thirdly, recall. I have never seen so slow dog! I do not know what happened. Guidelines speeding the dog up when recall: run away, throw the toy and play with your dog.

As regards all the activities, the main thing to remember is that you cannot stand dully if you do the obedience exercises! This all should be fun for the dog! Make it happen! Play with your dog!




Meanwhile there was a tiny thought to participate in unofficial obedience competition on December 12th, but now I really have doubts...