Trial and Stuart Mah

Since Bentley sounds like Koji (handler focused) this was wonderful to read. I also liked how he said to not have the dog do the same thing twice. Koji patterns a lot too. So how do you get the dog more obstacle focused? Is it more about teaching him to take what is in front of him, versus looking at me to get permission?

Great write-up. I'll have to go read up more on Stuart Mah. sounds like he could help me with me with some issues.

(i'm sooo going to fail Chances aka Gamblers this weekend. We tried, but Koji doesn't seem to know what a tunnel is, sigh)
 
k9kreationz said:
Since Bentley sounds like Koji (handler focused) this was wonderful to read. I also liked how he said to not have the dog do the same thing twice. Koji patterns a lot too. So how do you get the dog more obstacle focused? Is it more about teaching him to take what is in front of him, versus looking at me to get permission?

Great write-up. I'll have to go read up more on Stuart Mah. sounds like he could help me with me with some issues.

(i'm sooo going to fail Chances aka Gamblers this weekend. We tried, but Koji doesn't seem to know what a tunnel is, sigh)
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I think, from my understanding, was that you teach your dog to recognize patterns and then you can push the responsibility for those patterns onto them. So for the pinwheel example, instead of going out to help Koji get the pinwheel make it so easy that he can't mess up. That teaches him the pattern and he learns to focus on the obstacles all the way through. If you go towards him and ask him to take that middle jump, he's in handler focus.

Stuart writes a lot of articles for Clean Run, or he used to, so that might be something you can look up.

And don't worry, Bentley is really bad at Gamblers too :o But Koji might surprise you!
 
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