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After the little hishaps in training I decided to take things back. We haven't done formal obedience or yard or field work for a 10 days now. We've gone to the lake, and for walks, and to the park ect. getting a fun bumper every now and then. I'm going to start things back today with a short formal obedience session then about a 5 or 10 minute session of yard work just doing multiple guns in the field making him stay steady till it hits the ground and releasing him.
I'm going to jump back a couple weeks and fill everyone in on the problems. We had been on formal obedience for a little over a month and still doing multiple guns in the field but doing it on a pond as weel. Spook had a total lack of focus during his marks on land. He loves the water so the pond he did awesome. On land the first mark was average, second mark worse, and third who knew what was going through his head. He then became timid on sits during his obedience sessions. I let frustration get the best of me for a couple days so I just slowed it down and brought the fun back to things!
I have 2 questions:
First is there anything ya'll would do different during my training sessions today. What are things I should look for during my training session today.
Second, Spook hit 7 months on April 6. He was doing great I think my frustration and bad preparation was holding him back. I'm going to start things as they are today and if he does good and keeps it up, I'm going to start force fetch the beginning of May. I hear all these things about get a pros help and I will do that if necessary, but I'm going to atleast start on my own. Teaching hold starts it I mean come on I can do that! I'm getting extremely good at reading Spook and I'm going to try this on my own. There is now rush to do it I just want to get it out of the way! Should I wait longer I guess is my question!
I'm going to jump back a couple weeks and fill everyone in on the problems. We had been on formal obedience for a little over a month and still doing multiple guns in the field but doing it on a pond as weel. Spook had a total lack of focus during his marks on land. He loves the water so the pond he did awesome. On land the first mark was average, second mark worse, and third who knew what was going through his head. He then became timid on sits during his obedience sessions. I let frustration get the best of me for a couple days so I just slowed it down and brought the fun back to things!
I have 2 questions:
First is there anything ya'll would do different during my training sessions today. What are things I should look for during my training session today.
Second, Spook hit 7 months on April 6. He was doing great I think my frustration and bad preparation was holding him back. I'm going to start things as they are today and if he does good and keeps it up, I'm going to start force fetch the beginning of May. I hear all these things about get a pros help and I will do that if necessary, but I'm going to atleast start on my own. Teaching hold starts it I mean come on I can do that! I'm getting extremely good at reading Spook and I'm going to try this on my own. There is now rush to do it I just want to get it out of the way! Should I wait longer I guess is my question!