This is your 10th training lesson.
Your 4th Lesson in Intermediate Obedience
This week we will review all the skills and seek peak performance from your dog. As we build distance on out send out we will add the down behavior at the destination.
The big skills this week are continuing the send out exercise and adding a sit or down to end the exercise.
Continue to perform all the skills you have learned up to this point. Create a warm up routine that includes every skill. This routine should take 10-15 minutes to complete.
Skills are developed by repetition. Repeat each skill 4 to 6 times to ensure patterns are being set.
Send out By now we should have some distance added to this exercise and your dog should be running very fast to get to the target spot.
After he eats the food off the dish, entice him to come to you with treats and kiss sounds and walk him a few feet further from the food dish then before. Have the dog "Sit and Stay", and start the process all over again. If he fails to obey, get him closer to the food dish. Repeat this process three or four times.
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Send out to Sit Position After doing 4-5 review exercises of our Send Out with treats at our destination. Go through the motions where you go to place the treat, but this time place NO treat. Return to the dog. With your dog sitting at your left side, command your dog to "Go". When you dog gets to the destination and finds no treat, command your dog to 'Sit'. You may need to move closer to them to get this command. When you dog sits, reward them with serval treats, one after the other. Repeat 4-5 times with treats at the destination and then on the next one with the treats missing and command the 'Sit'. Always when no treat is present, hand feed several treats as the reward for the 'Sit'.
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Send Out to Down Position After doing 4-5 review exercises of our Send Out with treats at our destination. Go through the motions where you go to place the treat, but this time place NO treat. Return to the dog. With your dog sitting at your left side, command your dog to "Go". When you dog gets to the destination and finds no treat, command your dog to 'Down'. You may need to move closer to them to get this command. When you dog sits, reward them with serval treats, one after the other. Repeat 4-5 times with treats at the destination and then on the next one with the treats missing and command the 'Down'. Always when no treat is present, hand feed several treats as the reward for the 'Down'.
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Off leash Recall By now we should be able to call your dog in from a sit stay from a fair amount of distance, without the leash. As your dog is successful keep adding more and more distance between you and your dog. If you dog is unable to complete the off leash recall, put the leash back on and repeat several times. Try again off leash.
Command the dog to "Sit" if needed.
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Finish Keep working the finish skill until your dog flies into this position. Face the dog and hold the leash in your right hand. Place your left hand under his chin. Motion the dog with your hand to your left as you take a step back and the dog makes a semicircle and comes to sit at your left side. Praise. If the dog has problems with this, assist with gentle tugs of the leash. (To much leash promotes resistance) Make sure the dog is sitting straight at your side. If not, quickly command the dog to "Heel", take a few steps forward and command the dog to "Sit". Repeat this step until the dog sits straight at your side. This exercise may still require motivation with treats or a toy to get your dog to put in enough energy to complete the move. This is normal. This exercise requires a lot of effort from your dog, so help them as much as possible until the skill is automatic.
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Practice these skills several times a day throughout your training course.