A long time ago, many years ago, I was taking my dog for a walk at a park. Somewhere along the way, my car keys dropped out of my pocket. When I got back to the car… oops.
I took a chance. I had been teaching my dog to track, so I took him to where we had started the walk and commanded him to Seek.
Nothing.
He also didn’t know how to find something with my scent on it in a field if commanded, so I couldn’t just let him loose and let him look around. All he would have done was run around.
He was still too much of a novice to do what I had asked. I was as much of a novice as my dog regarding tracking and scent detection. You can't get results you haven't properly taught.
I see a lot of people who have tried training their dogs to do this or that, or to stop doing nuisance behaviors. But the dog didn’t have enough foundation, or the way they did the training was wrong. I see a lot of this when watching dog training advertising videos. If you know what you are looking at, you can see what the trainer thinks/ claims they are training isn’t what the dog is getting out of it. They are doing it wrong, and they don’t even know it. The owners will never get the skills they are paying for.
Plan accordingly.
1 comment:
Absolutely! Most often, it is very plain to see that the owner is not consistent! I find to getting an expert to obseve me saves me lost of time and frustration! Thank you!
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