Introduction and Today's Training Session - "Stays"

I'm new to Blogging.  I know it's a place to talk and maybe get a little response.  I've been training dogs for about 35 years and have been totally positive for at least the last 15+ years.  I don't know how I wasn't before, now that I'm here!  

Let me introduce my Goldens.  I've had Jason since he was 8 weeks old.  He is now 2 1/2 yrs. old.  He's a talker and very smart.  We got a second Golden, Casey, the beginning of March due to him losing his Dad, a very dear friend.  Casey is 10 1/2 and comes with an obedience OTCh.  He, too, is very smart, and also likes to talk at times.  Both dogs have an enormous amount of energy!  They are both on raw diets.

This morning, I decided to work with their "stays" while working with the other dog.  I've often used a crate before this, but this is my first time I decided not to use a crate.  Usually, I'll give them a chance to stay, and if they break, I just put them in a crate to finish what I was doing.  I'm determined to give them the benefit of the doubt and hope they will learn to stay - trust them! But I know they may not, depending on how their day is going 😇.  I know some days are just NOT stay days, and the crate will be handy.  They also need that mental break at times.  Today just seemed like a good time to try it.  

Here's our training session from this morning.  I removed several of the play breaks to make it shorter.  The tape is 11 minutes long.  I learned from watching this video today that I really need to work on Jason's pivot bowl pivots again(figure 8 without cones) and on Casey's creeping (signals/stays) which used to haunt his previous owner.  Casey is learning the platform and is starting to really like it.  However, he has a hard time staying on it some times when food is present.  But he's definitely showing progress and not taking his front feet off as often.

Jason talked to me in this tape when I was wanting him to stay a few times.  I think I was pretty fair with both dogs.  They never want to go home when I go there.  This is a big outing for me and the boys.  I'm pretty much sheltering in place, but I do go there twice a week to work with the boys and to tape demos for my virtual rally classes.  I always have a clorox wipe in my hand when I have to touch anything that's not mine.  Nobody else is in the building either.  I go there, and to the grocery store once a week, and to the post office to mail orders from my website www.k9rally.com. I do have a place I can take them to safely run in a fenced area 2-3 times a week when nobody is there.  Again, the clorox wipes!  And we walk in the neighborhood twice a day to my Pokeman Stops!

I'm not sure inserting this large video is going to work, so just in case, here's the YouTube link: https://youtu.be/X_i5ytW-csg

B
www.k9rally.com



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