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You make great videos, thought the right thing to do was to at least buy stuff on your website also a DVD versus buying from somewhere else thank you wish me luck
Great vid. I have a two year old springer who was going great at 10 months. All of the sudden we had a melt down. No confidence,no obedience, it was a mess. I started over, hallway retrieves, check cord recall with treats. We started indoors slowly moved outside very small steps. She will be two on 7/1 and we just got two of our junior hunter qualifications done. You can do it! Start over, you’ll be fine.
best i can tell it appears Jeremy is training a belgian malinois breed which is a very high energy dog with amazing athletic abilities. More of a police / military canine. They will test your patience and training skills. Good news is they are fast learners.
I think it is the way the dogs are familiair with the commands they learn, the way of sending out a dog and get his attention and let them focus. The steps you take before sending out a dog. The dog memories this steps. A dog knows he must run as long until he sees or smell the dummy/bird. A dog can’t estimate how far something is. He can memorize where the dummy is coming down, but he don’t how many yards. When he must retrieve a dummy in a straight line, he doesn’t know how far it is. But he has learned he must run as long he can see or smell the dummy. The line is importent and is your dog on the left. Point with you left hand. But also that is more the way a dog is used to. If you do it with your other hand, the dog can get confused because he never get his command with the other hand. So right or left is not importent. Use the same all the time. In some video’s the dog is send out without pointing at the direction. Because the dog knows ‘back or out’ means run in a straight line. Important is that which command you use, the steps you make or use your hand. Do it all the same way, same steps. It is all in the association in the learning process and not in that there is only one way to teach them. But great video anyway. Give me the confidents that distance, time and frequency are importent in the learning process. That when my dog retrieve from a short distance the first time, it doesn’t mean he can do this when I make the distance bigger and that 1 meter is enough a dog can be not understanding the exercise anymore. Or he can retrieve a dummy from a long distance on a field.but when you change the surroundings, I have to start with step 1.
Rushing your dog due to the calendar is a real thing. That is the main reason I go to game farms. Yes they are planted birds but they are birds . I don’t need to rush because the birds will be there when we are ready.
I have owned/trained several dogs (all rescue). I lost my last dog in January after 10 years together - I believe that every day is a school day with dogs and I worked with my last dog every day, almost to the last. I now have a new youngster to start training all over again and am binge-watching dog training videos to try to train myself to be the best handler I possibly can. I truly appreciate your kindness and generosity in sharing your knowledge and wisdom with us. Thank you!
I believe in alpha training but this means being a strong leader, it doesn't mean strong corrections or strong dominant behavior. Be firm but only as firm as required. Gentleness and respect go farther than over zealous commands and corrections.
Jeremy is a true master of his craft . I have watched his technique with different/ difficult canines and as he says “I learn something new or different each time “.
