PUPPY TRAIN BLOG

Candy doesn’t want to hang onto anything with a firm deep grip.  She does constant bites more towards the front of her mouth and often drops something right away.  I have gotten her to start bringing me things in the house.  I am trying to move our training more outside.  I am also introducing the dumbbell to Candy.  Candy is good about taking something when I ask her to.  This is another very very short exercise I am trying with Candy to try to get her to hold on to something, calmly and firmly.  I support the bottom of her mouth, along with gently putting some steady pressure on the top of her nose, asking her to stop the bite bite bite on something in her mouth.  Once she is pretty calm with this I stroke her nose telling her good.

I also am trying to get Candy to get used to possitioning of being close in front of me holding the dumbbell with her head up, as this should be her position after a retrieve.  This clip isn’t very good, but it does demonstrate the type of things I am trying with her, this is the first time we did this move.  Again, my work with her in this area was super short and only once, the length of this clip is less than a minute, and we are done.   I plan on doing this move several times a day with her.  Will it work?  Who knows… but again, it can’t hurt, as long as she is a willing player, and she is.  I am just trying to give Candy an understanding of certain training items she will be dealing with in the future.  I don’t want to over work anything.  I feel if I keep things super short with her, and more play, her understanding will grow, and hopefully she won’t develope a bad taste for any of what I am doing.  She is cooperating with me in all areas so far, and I feel doing well with what I am asking of her.  We will see if it helps or not in her progress.

Video:  http://vonjacobs.com/dumbbell