Anyone want a low impact activity to try with their OES?
Right now I am waiting for their harnesses to arrive (silver for Miss Marley and a manly charcoal for Captain Morgan  ) but I am really taken with this new activity. Especially since we can practice at home and around the neighborhood, we can work alone or with a buddy and we get to go to the club's beautiful fields with wonderful scenery on Sunday mornings to practice under the oversight of very experienced club members. Even if we never compete, this is a great activity that isn't hard on the joints and gets us outside where I love to be  |
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Kerry, consider recruiting Dan to help you lay tracks so they get used to tracking someone else's scent right off the bat. And then start paying neighborhood kids, I guess  Although laying a track properly takes some skill. Mine are so short still it's hard to seriously mess up, but I'm told it's a bit of an artform the more advanced you get. And I don't have anyone handy to lay them for me on short notice, so that's a problem. Even better if you can find a dog buddy in your neighborhood who is interested, but wonderful that you have a club nearby and fall is just the perfect weather to do this too.
Me, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get my dogs to alert me to the articles so if they teach you a good method, please share. Kristine |
| the person who was handling the introduction to tracking stuff for all us newbies was very strong on using the sit/down to alert for articles from the beginning. (she being an obedience person anyway) she said you can make them sit using a verbal command in the beginning and treat and then they will as we all know automatically sit in the their own. (also can place a treat on the article but i think that might interfere with the sit - wonder if you could use one of those training tubes withthe treat in them??????)
I am dragging Dan to the practice this weekend - B would be great at this stuff and Morgan's dark charcoal harness will work on B too I think we will be at the laying tracks for ourself stage for quite a while - but I can see your dilema..... |
| Yes, I think that's how Margie T said she trains it too. I also seem to recall that she said she taught the articles somewhat separately to really bring the point home to at least one of her dogs. Maybe I need to do that, but knowing me dog would just learn to alert to every piece of trash in a seven mile radius
I just figured that Sybil, with her penchant for putting EVERYTHING in her mouth  would pick stuff up and bring it to me, but no dice. She just blows right past the articles.
Maybe if I "dropped" more interesting and edible things like my video camera, my cell phone and my remote controls...   
Reminds me. More seriously, I do need to come up with new articles. Kristine |
Yeah there was an article exercise someone was talking about where she scattered the articles around the yard and taught the dog to sit at each one for a treat. I still have to get articles, although I hadn't thought about the video camera route  |
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