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11-20-2008, 11:57 AM | #1 |
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| Erin you around to talk targeting Got a tiny problem with miss visually impaired need some thoughts. Intrested?? She was able to target stick no problem and we could move her around the rwith it and the eyes get worse we are loosing the abilty to use tareget stick. Any thoughts? JL
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11-21-2008, 05:57 PM | #2 | |
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What's your goal for the target training - that might help me think of other ways to help. I taught targetting a stick for a reasonable heel and a wee pad for the contacts on agility. If little miss is hard of seeing I can't imagine you want her doing agility!
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11-21-2008, 06:06 PM | #3 | |
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11-21-2008, 08:18 PM | #4 |
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| What exactly are you trying to teach her? Can you use a shaker can (like a medicine bottle with a penny in it) or another noisemaker to help her find her way? Can you put peanut butter on the target stick so she can sniff it? That's all I can think of right now...
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11-23-2008, 07:36 AM | #5 |
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| So we are up to keeping a wee little girl's mind busy in the winter months to run her energy down as if she runs to hot she will crash and burn. Working the brain expends energy as much and a game of fetch if you work clicker and make them think. Target stick us is so we can work rally o skills and we have not ruled out agilty.. She can but no jumping as long as she willing to follow the target stick. My understanding although I have not checked into it is there is a disabled class for agilty but then again she may not be able to do that anyway do to aggression and the running would ramp up her brain and may cause a fall out of aggresion Target stick tricks as well. Putting a smell on it may work. Noise maker have to be something other then a rattle... bad Mum when I did not know clicker use a pop can for an interuptor and she freaks at that kind of sound... maybe a bell on the stick like I do for when she out off leash in the yard. JL
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11-23-2008, 09:26 PM | #6 |
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| O I've got a couple. Hide and seek. If she's got a good wait then get her to wait (or get someone to hold her) then go hide and call out to her to come find you. (If she's not finding you make a little noise) My guys love this game. I also play hide and seek with toys when I can't be bothered moving around much. I get Dougal really into a toy then cover his eyes and hide the toy then ask "where is it Dougal" he spends ages scurrying around trying to find it. Another brain game someone suggested was getting paper cups and putting a little treat under one then getting the dog to sniff out the treat. You could train some tricks. Once she's zoning in on the touch stick again you could teach her to weave between your legs as you walk along. Even tho Dixie doesn't like being too near my clumsy feet most of the time I still have a pretty good weave from her. You could do heelwork to music - we're giving that a go - it's pretty taxing on my brain coming up with ways to train different tricks! A really cute one that didn't take long with Dixie (it did with Dougal) was to wave on command with different paws. Wow a special disabled class in agility - I wish that they just had a micro dog class here in NZ! Hope that helps and if there are other suggestions I'd like to know - keeping my two occupied during the winter months is hard work! But it's summer here (nearly) yay for long walks on the beach - despite the sunburn.
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11-24-2008, 10:58 AM | #7 |
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| I use a puzzle that is at Karen pryors site for her to use her brain. Hide and seek with an aggressive dog is not such a good thing as she get to ramped up. Lucy and I do do trick training... right now I letting my sister polis a few skills with trick training with my dog. It funny to watch her not able to shape as fast as she will not ise a clicker yet with the dog. Nope not trying to be difficult she just a difficult dog to work with and live with. Thanks for the help. JL
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