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Originally Posted by QuickSilver  The mirror trick sounds really neat! Did you come up with that yourself?
It's cool to hear about your experience with clicker training. Maybe I'll try to find something that makes a super-soft noise that doesn't scare Thor.
BTW - Thor finally got spin to the left. He's an ambi-turner!  Interesting enough, it kicked up his spin to the right quite a bit. He has a pretty splashy-looking move going now. I think he finally got the difference between my right & left hands.
Now I just have to put them together for a dance move.
Also, I took Thor to our first official class yesterday - Nose Work. It turns out that neither of us are particularly good at it, but I'm interested to see how it turns out. |
No - I didn't come up with it myself, I think I saw it on YouTube somewhere, I can't remember the particular video. I'll have to look - I probably saved it in my favorites. But it's super cute.
The 1st time I used the clicker I scared Jackson w/ it... he's not a super skiddish dog but it was my fault. It was when I was teaching take a bow and I made the mistake of clicking it when my hand (with clicker in it) was under his belly.... he flipped and didn't know what the hell the thing was and then our training session was over, LOL. So I had stopped using the clicker for a few weeks and just recently picked it back up again and now it doesn't phase him at all, and in fact, he gets excited when he sees me pick it up cuz he knows it means treats! Your idea for a clicker looks good to me!
Have you tried a pen? I've heard of people using the click of a pen too.
And YAY for Thor spinning both ways now! They look super cute spinning in both directions. I really wanna see Thor in action. Where are your videos at?
And Nose Work... is that semi new doggy 'sport' where boxes are laid out and one has a treat in it? If so... it looked soo interesting. I had emailed them a little while back and they said they are coming back to the DC area in the Fall, I think, for a seminar and some classes.