Four New Hints & Tips Training Videos

[scot-ish]

soon as she is on the off, chase her, tone of voice raised, you have to be right ontop of her though, meaning keeping her close, 100% focus on the dog, and when she has set of, youhave to be quick and raise your voice to get to her.

its not a teenage thing, at 14 months dogs are winning field trials.

[trekmoor]

its not a teenage thing, at 14 months dogs are winning field trials.

I'm a month late in replying to this but I do agree with it. We are too inclined to excuse unwanted behaviours by saying , "It's just a puppy." If you have had a dog from an early age and it is still doing this kind of thing at 14 months then the fault is yours. One woman told me her almost 18 month dog which was rampaging about was , "Her baby !"

As the saying goes ..... " Anything you let a dog do, you are training it to do." Some "bad behaviours" such as chasing or running in can be beneficial to begin with in order to increase "drive" but if you allow them to continue for too long you will have a problem on your hands. I am at this stage at present with the 12-13 months old vizsla I'm training. She lacks hunting drive and so I let her chase for several months. She now chases just a bit too well ! I am now fitting her with brakes.

Wullie

[Megsdad]

its not a teenage thing, at 14 months dogs are winning field trials.

I'm a month late in replying to this but I do agree with it. We are too inclined to excuse unwanted behaviours by saying , "It's just a puppy." If you have had a dog from an early age and it is still doing this kind of thing at 14 months then the fault is yours. One woman told me her almost 18 month dog which was rampaging about was , "Her baby !"

As the saying goes ..... " Anything you let a dog do, you are training it to do." Some "bad behaviours" such as chasing or running in can be beneficial to begin with in order to increase "drive" but if you allow them to continue for too long you will have a problem on your hands. I am at this stage at present with the 12-13 months old vizsla I'm training. She lacks hunting drive and so I let her chase for several months. She now chases just a bit too well ! I am now fitting her with brakes.

Wullie

Ha ha totally agree that what the dog does is down to the trainer (apart from her just being mental). My recent knee probs haven't made things any easier as I'm not able to chase her when she does a 'Fenton'. To be fair on my ickle baby she is not running off if I keep her occupied hunting balls in the undergrowth. Can't get over how quickly they learn 'the game' though. I was sending her off to get a ball and while she's running chuck a few more into cover then have her hunt them out. After a couple of goes of this she comes steaming back, spits the retrieve at my feet and batters off hunting close to me for more balls without a pause. When she finds one she picks it, throws it up in the air and sniffs out the next one. All happening so fast I've not time to blow the stop whistle!!

[wesleylangley]

Good video's! Hope to see more in the future

[coco]

Have just watched these again, and now that I have an 8 month lab to train, found them all to be relevant to our training. A great presentation style and the advice on timescales and patience is valuable info for a novice like me. Are there any plans for stop whistle training?

[Tomsdad]

been watching these for a while, i really enjoy them, the relaxed style suits me

[jeffD]

Fantastic training Video's, have also seen your website videos I dont know much about production but I could not fault them.
Many many thanks to you and all the other trainers that make this material available to us.

[chunky]

Hello I have just watched all 4 of your video's on u tube i enjoyed them very much and i will be trying the methods that you have shown.The opening sequence's are very well put together
My only very small critism is that your narrative on all video's can only be heard in mono(left hand speaker)although to be fair it seems to be of a good audible quality, where as the music to the opening scenes can be heard in stereo,Your hosting and teaching skills present themselves in a nice informative and relaxed manner and i'll definately be referring back to them in the future as well as keeping an eye for new additions thankyou Darren.

[jimbl]

Just watched them all and they are very helpful good.

[Terry]

Enjoyed that .