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Training Tips
PUPPY -
note- we recommend positive reinforcement training (R+) for all puppies. It keeps your puppy wanting to learn, builds a strong trusting relationship, and makes learning FUN!
Play with a Purpose
Building Motivation
1. Good solid management in the home is essential when starting a puppy. Prepare yourself and your home before you ever purchase a puppy!
2. Create 5-10 training sessions a day, from 30 seconds - 3 minutes for each session. 'Micro' training sessions are far more productive!
3. Play with a Purpose - find a toy your puppy really likes and play with your puppy often, when your done playing put it away so it stays valuable.
4. Socialize everyday! People, places, things, events and other well socialized appropriate dogs.
5. Start with more management and structure and offer freedom later on as your puppy earns it!
6. Potty your puppy on a leash so you know they in fact have gone. Every 20 minutes when they are active, 20 minutes after puppies eat and or drink, every 1-2 hours if they are resting or hanging out with you.
7. Have a plan for training and be consistent.
Starting Loose Leash
8. There is no need for correcting your puppy if you have good management. Puppy proof your home, have chew sticks available on the floor, schedule feed, play often, exercise and potty.
9. Handle your puppy daily; touch their paws, ears, tummy, teeth , legs, tail and back.
10. Give your puppy a job! You exercise their mind as well as their body! Get involved in puppy agility, puppy freestyle, tracking, fetch, Frisbee...
11. Puppies should not be off leash in an un-contained area. A puppy or dog should have a reliable recall and be under 100% voice control before the leash ever comes off on a trail or in a park.
12. Be a responsible owner with your puppy. Enjoy, love and TRAIN your puppy!
note- we recommend positive reinforcement training (R+) for all puppies. It keeps your puppy wanting to learn, builds a strong trusting relationship, and makes learning FUN!
Play with a Purpose
Building Motivation
1. Good solid management in the home is essential when starting a puppy. Prepare yourself and your home before you ever purchase a puppy!
2. Create 5-10 training sessions a day, from 30 seconds - 3 minutes for each session. 'Micro' training sessions are far more productive!
3. Play with a Purpose - find a toy your puppy really likes and play with your puppy often, when your done playing put it away so it stays valuable.
4. Socialize everyday! People, places, things, events and other well socialized appropriate dogs.
5. Start with more management and structure and offer freedom later on as your puppy earns it!
6. Potty your puppy on a leash so you know they in fact have gone. Every 20 minutes when they are active, 20 minutes after puppies eat and or drink, every 1-2 hours if they are resting or hanging out with you.
7. Have a plan for training and be consistent.
Starting Loose Leash
8. There is no need for correcting your puppy if you have good management. Puppy proof your home, have chew sticks available on the floor, schedule feed, play often, exercise and potty.
9. Handle your puppy daily; touch their paws, ears, tummy, teeth , legs, tail and back.
10. Give your puppy a job! You exercise their mind as well as their body! Get involved in puppy agility, puppy freestyle, tracking, fetch, Frisbee...
11. Puppies should not be off leash in an un-contained area. A puppy or dog should have a reliable recall and be under 100% voice control before the leash ever comes off on a trail or in a park.
12. Be a responsible owner with your puppy. Enjoy, love and TRAIN your puppy!
FREESTYLE -
Ocean's 2006 MDSA Film Festival
Martha Stewart, Nancy & Story 2006
Ocean 2008 MDSA TITLING
Story 2008 MDSA TITLING
Story's 2007 MDSA Film Festival
1. Know what is valuable to your dog and make a list from highest value to medium value - i.e. - ball, Frisbee, roast beef, lamb, squeaky toys... Always have 4 different types of rewards with you when training. Some behaviors will require 'more' motivation while other behaviors require less.
2. When training always have music playing, it helps to relax the handler and make the training sessions light and relaxed.
3. Have a plan for each training session.
4. Repetitions count for everything, enjoy them and have fun with it.
5. Lures should become random and variable fairly quickly. Rewards should remain for many hundreds of repetitions.
6. Train moves and sequences with your dog in small chunks.
7. Practice your choreography by yourself. You need to know it intimately before you ever include your dog.
8. Be fair to your dog, if they can forgive your small mistakes, you most certainly can forgive theirs!
9. Creative heeling is the key to freestyle, make this the 'best' trick ever!
10. Generalize your training sessions in new and different locations. Train on sidewalks, grass, in front of shopping centers... If you want to compete your dog needs to be use to new and different!
11. Work with hand cues as well as voice cues. They need to blend into your choreography over time.
12. Train like you are going to compete (even if you never do), and compete like you train. It keeps consistency in the team work, and always keeps your training at the highest standard.
13. Freestyle is a sport you choose for your dog, there should never be a verbal or physical correction. If you want an enthusiastic partner then reinforce heavily and have fun!
Ocean's 2006 MDSA Film Festival
Martha Stewart, Nancy & Story 2006
Ocean 2008 MDSA TITLING
Story 2008 MDSA TITLING
Story's 2007 MDSA Film Festival
1. Know what is valuable to your dog and make a list from highest value to medium value - i.e. - ball, Frisbee, roast beef, lamb, squeaky toys... Always have 4 different types of rewards with you when training. Some behaviors will require 'more' motivation while other behaviors require less.
2. When training always have music playing, it helps to relax the handler and make the training sessions light and relaxed.
3. Have a plan for each training session.
4. Repetitions count for everything, enjoy them and have fun with it.
5. Lures should become random and variable fairly quickly. Rewards should remain for many hundreds of repetitions.
6. Train moves and sequences with your dog in small chunks.
7. Practice your choreography by yourself. You need to know it intimately before you ever include your dog.
8. Be fair to your dog, if they can forgive your small mistakes, you most certainly can forgive theirs!
9. Creative heeling is the key to freestyle, make this the 'best' trick ever!
10. Generalize your training sessions in new and different locations. Train on sidewalks, grass, in front of shopping centers... If you want to compete your dog needs to be use to new and different!
11. Work with hand cues as well as voice cues. They need to blend into your choreography over time.
12. Train like you are going to compete (even if you never do), and compete like you train. It keeps consistency in the team work, and always keeps your training at the highest standard.
13. Freestyle is a sport you choose for your dog, there should never be a verbal or physical correction. If you want an enthusiastic partner then reinforce heavily and have fun!
OFF LEASH DOGS-
Focus Training at a Dog Park
1. Before your puppy/dog is off leash in a public place they need to have a 'reliable recall' and be under '100% voice control'. This is advanced training.
2. Keep your dogs 'call name' valuable. While working in a contained area, every time you call your dog, reward heavily. Repeat this often and vary your rewards (whether it is a game of tug, fetch or food rewards). You build 'power' in their call name by doing this, and over time your recall will be very reliable.
3. Don't let your dog fail. If you have your dog off leash in an un-contained area before they are ready, and they fail and run away, you are encouraging them to pattern an unsuccessful and potentially dangerous behavior.
4. Keep your dog with you when out and about. When you are ready to be off leash on a trail, keep your dog with you. Engage in fetch, step off the trail if people need to pass, let someone know when you need to pass. Please remember that trails are not dog parks.
5. Add distractions slowly. If you have a reliable recall in your yard, put a long line on your dog and go into a field and practice, then try a trail with low activity. Slowly build up to more distractions. If you choose to not use a long line, and your dog fails and takes off, you go back to your yard and build up all over again.
6. If you cannot give your off leash dog 80% of your attention then please put a leash on them. Be responsible.
7. Off leash dogs at dog parks should come when called, if yours is not they are not ready to be off leash. Train more in a contained area with less distractions.
8. Advanced training takes; time, consistency, and maturity. Don't be in a hurry to take your dog off leash if you have not put in the time. Keep them successful and work up to it!
Focus Training at a Dog Park
1. Before your puppy/dog is off leash in a public place they need to have a 'reliable recall' and be under '100% voice control'. This is advanced training.
2. Keep your dogs 'call name' valuable. While working in a contained area, every time you call your dog, reward heavily. Repeat this often and vary your rewards (whether it is a game of tug, fetch or food rewards). You build 'power' in their call name by doing this, and over time your recall will be very reliable.
3. Don't let your dog fail. If you have your dog off leash in an un-contained area before they are ready, and they fail and run away, you are encouraging them to pattern an unsuccessful and potentially dangerous behavior.
4. Keep your dog with you when out and about. When you are ready to be off leash on a trail, keep your dog with you. Engage in fetch, step off the trail if people need to pass, let someone know when you need to pass. Please remember that trails are not dog parks.
5. Add distractions slowly. If you have a reliable recall in your yard, put a long line on your dog and go into a field and practice, then try a trail with low activity. Slowly build up to more distractions. If you choose to not use a long line, and your dog fails and takes off, you go back to your yard and build up all over again.
6. If you cannot give your off leash dog 80% of your attention then please put a leash on them. Be responsible.
7. Off leash dogs at dog parks should come when called, if yours is not they are not ready to be off leash. Train more in a contained area with less distractions.
8. Advanced training takes; time, consistency, and maturity. Don't be in a hurry to take your dog off leash if you have not put in the time. Keep them successful and work up to it!
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