[J.D. Penn]

We just started pattern blinds yesterday. My question is how particular should I be about her line. She is lining the first leg very well. Today I handled her one time and i was nit-picking so much that her sit put her back on line. Just wondering how to get in some teaching here. The second leg is a little more difficult, so I get opportunities there.

 

[Guest]

We just started pattern blinds yesterday. My question is how particular should I be about her line. She is lining the first leg very well. Today I handled her one time and i was nit-picking so much that her sit put her back on line. Just wondering how to get in some teaching here. The second leg is a little more difficult, so I get opportunities there.

There have been about 14 million threads on pattern blinds and lining recently. You don't even have to search, you can just scroll.

 

[J.D. Penn]

You didn't have to reply either. You could have simply passed on by.

 

[Huff]

Don't nit pick the line. Just get it going and have success at first.

 

[J.D. Penn]

That's pretty much what I thought. I've kind of been looking at it like a confidence and momentum builder. If she has some trouble on the other then I would let her roll to the one she lines.

 

[Guest]

You didn't have to reply either. You could have simply passed on by.

Y'know, I knew I would get a bitchy response out of you. Just scroll down and look for the threads. Really, it's all been discussed within the last week and reading them will answer your question and more. Lighten up cowboy.

So sorry to have taken up my time to tell where you could find this information.

 

[KwickLabs]

I read this

Just wondering how to get in some teaching here.

and thought about when I was running pattern blinds with my first dog. Thinking back, I was more concerned with teaching the routine of establishing a pattern blind, making sure the dog fired off the line every time, keeping momentum high and most of all trying to produce repetitions that required very little handling. After reading your description, stopping with the description of "nit-picking" would at least prove the dog responds willingly to a whistle and cast (which is good).

Since you said this about her first pattern blind

She is lining the first leg very well.

I'd say you've been teaching her quite a bit (which is good).

Once you start to run cold blinds, teaching the handling aspects of blinds takes on more significance (for me). I guess what I'm saying is I really like my young dogs to "pound" a pattern blind without much handling when they start......and usually they do. Which means the program is progressing seamlessly (which is good).

 

[Renee P.]

There have been about 14 million threads on pattern blinds and lining recently. You don't even have to search, you can just scroll.

There is nothing uncivilized about this comment.

 

[Guest]

There is nothing uncivilized about this comment.

Thanks mitty.

I hope those youtube videos helped you. I thought it was good they posted the one with the dog who didn't take a straight line to the blind they were trying to establish and how it affected the training exercise thereafter. We see so many dogs doing things right, it's refreshing every now and then to see that things don't always go perfectly!

 

[J.D. Penn]

Jim thank you. That clears things up for me. Oh, by the way, I am fixing to start building a couple of your wingers. Thanks for the info.

 

[Renee P.]

Thanks mitty.

I hope those youtube videos helped you. I thought it was good they posted the one with the dog who didn't take a straight line to the blind they were trying to establish and how it affected the training exercise thereafter. We see so many dogs doing things right, it's refreshing every now and then to see that things don't always go perfectly!

I haven't studied them real hard yet. What I found the most helpful, on the first one, is the narration of the casting to get the dog away from the poison bird and on to the blind. I liked seeing the pickup whistle on the cast.

 

[Renee P.]

About the comment, or the commentator? ;-)

Melanie, what post involves the videos to which you refer? Always interested in learning what I'm doing wrong....

I'm not Melanie but the link to the video is at the bottom of this thread (from 2 days ago) on pattern blinds:

http://www.retrievertraining.net/forums/showthread.php?t=79898&page=3

 

[Gun_Dog2002]

I've answered this a dozen times in the past 10 years with detailed descriptions and diagrams. You bust Felonies chops for suggesting to search for an answer. Do you have the patience and willingness to train a dog to do this? Your clearly too impatient to even do a simple search.

Something to seriously think about.

/Paul

 

[J.D. Penn]

Well Paul, I would search but the box doesn't come up when using an iPhone.

 

[Mary Lynn Metras]

Whistle sit her when she goes offline. Walk out in a straight line to the blind, close to where she went off line and cast her to the line, sit her, then recast back to the blind. At the blind, whistle sit her and walk back to the start. Run her again. Little bit of work but it pays off IMHO.