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Jasmine Around Town
Socialization is very important for all puppies, but especially for welshies since they tend to be reserved.
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We have a new addition to Cryslen Welshies!
She's a wild child like her half-sister, Leeloo and her dam, Bay Bay. Right now, we are working in obedience and will be taking her first puppy class as soon as she has had the required vacccinations.
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Our First Two Weekends of Rally and Obedience Trials
Last weekend in Harrisonburg, VA, Tucker and I went to our very first rally and obedience trials. On Saturday we had Beginners Novice Obedience and Rally Novice and Sunday we only had Beginners Novice. Our first Beginners Novice trial went well.
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Our first real obedience class
We are now on week four (about the attend our fifth class) and he's become super reliable at sit, down, recall and stay and made great strides in learning to heel on leash. We will be competing for our first ever rally and obedience legs on April 9th and 10th, so we're practicing every day.
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Time for Calm
I've only been doing this for about a week and it certainly hasn't stopped the hyper behavior, but he is catching on to what I want very quickly, so I'm hoping the need for this exercise will eventually be eliminated as he sees that he gets what he wants by being calm.
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Tucker and I Start Beginning Rally Classes
The exercises necessary to complete an RN title include Attention, Heeling, Front, Finish left or right and Stay. We have four more classes and then we will hopefully be ready to compete in novice rally and get our title.
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Starting Fall with Obedience and Rally
I signed Tucker up for a Beginning Rally class at Richmond Dog Obedience Club. It starts September 1st. We have been practicing sit and down, so hopefully Tucker is ready…
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My Lore Trained Dog Needs Help Thinking for Himself (or You Could Say “Using His Brain”)
Raiden can learn and he will do whatever you ask him to do if: 1. he's been lored into that position before and given a command to go with it enough times to remember it and 2. you have a treat in front of his face. Missing either of those two elements means Raiden requires a lot of time and patience and waiting around for him to figure out what you want and he usually gives up or I give up and tell him what I want.
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A New Obedience Game
The game I'm simply going to call the sit-down-stand game. I'm sure I'm probably not the first one to try this, but I'm going to start Tucker with just sit and stand because he knows both. I'll give him the sit command, say "good" (his marker), reward him and release him with the word "break."
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Consistency is The Key to Training Success
When I remember to make them sit at each door they get better at figuring out that that's what they need to do. If I forget to make them sit at the door, they get confused. I'm figuring out that the more consistent I am the more clear they are on what they need to do to get their reinforcement, which is to be allowed to go through the door.