As the world is still staying at home I will show you a nice exercise with Scarlett, we filmed this when she was a few weeks before her 11th birthday, and we still do this exercise very often.
Ladder
I used my cavaletti's at the medium setting and not spaced to wide from each other
You can use a normal ladder also
Always treat after they went over all the rungs
This can be can be more challenging than you think, but if Scarlett can do it, your dog can do it too
At the moment we are still at home, as almost everyone on the globe, and we are working alot on tricks as you could see in our previous posts.
I'd like for the time being, to post video's of various tricks that we trained with our dogs.
And share some information on how I trained my dog the trick.
First one is touch target stick,
I don't have a real target stick, so I use a ball wanger.
The point is that they touch the end of the stick with their nose.
How to do this, ofcourse there are several ways but I tought it like this
I make sure I have a clicker and loads of treats ready.
The moment the dog takes interest in the stick I click, I suggest to hold the stick with the handle pretty short. After a few repetitions of taking interest, try to wait out that the dog does not only take interest, but wil touch it with his nose.
This should not be too hard to do.
When they are touching the stick almost every time, I would hold the stick out with the handle a bit longer.
After a while that should go great too, and I would put the behaviour on cue.
I say "touch" then I present the stick, and when your dog touches the stick, click and treat.
And there you have it. You teached your dog a cool trick, this trick could come in handy if you want to teach your dog spin circles or other cool tricks aswell.
A happy easter from Glamourace Collies!!!!
This week a few of these hearts where placed in and around the area where we live.
So we liked to get a simple picture with our dogs posing with one of those hearts.
It says care for each other, and in this time we should
It is a while back now, but we have been working a lot on tricks and fitness in the last few months. I always wanted to try something out with my older dogs, and since Dita has her leg injury I didn't want to put a lot of extra stress on her joints.
So I started doing fit-tricks with Scarlett.
I absolutely do fitness with Dita but not all the fit-tricks that are needed for a title.
So we worked for a month on all the things we needed to gain a title Canine Conditioning Fitness and we did great.
Scarlett gained her fitness title 1 month before her 11th birthday. I'm so proud that her body is still able to do this and she is so happy when she performs.
As we are in a intelligent Lockdown (that is how our gouverment calls it) we are working on a Novice trick title for Emmy
For a title you need 15 tricks and we have loads of time training them.
I'm also giving online lessons on tricktraining with Emmy as my demo dog.
If you like to join you can go to Lucky Pink Paws Trick Dog Spark Team
It is totally free and so much fun.
Even puppies can train tricks and it builds a great bond with your dog.
We don't have dogshows going on I think almost globally, so here at Glamourace Collies we are trying to keep our dogs occupied
As I'm a new canine fitness coach and a trick dog instructor, I'm working towards titles in both fitness and trick training
Here is Star with her Intermediat tricks
Enjoy the video, and if you like to train tricks also, join my free facebook spark team Lucky Pink Paws trick dog Spark Team
