Archive for the ‘Training’ Category

Posted on June 9, 2010 - by Guro

Obedience Training with Aurora

Here’s a short update on Aurora and how it’s going with her obedience training!
Aurora has been very motivated for training this spring and I’m really enjoying our training sessions; whether it’s obedience, agility or blood tracking!
When it comes to the obedience training I’m currently focusing on details; like getting her to sit down at a perfect position, getting her to start at once on the Heel (and not lag behind), and getting a quick Down and Stay. We had a good start at the competitions this year with 153 points, and even getting points in every exercise! I got some points off for using my body to enforce the commands, so I will try to minimize that next time
In this video we work on the timing of the Jump exercise, the speed and the handing off the Dumbbell Retrieve, the Stand and the Down commands.

Posted on May 22, 2010 - by Guro

Sølvmerke i lydighet

I dag har Aurora klart å ta sølvmerke i lydighet! Det er jenta si det
Vi stilte i LP klasse 1 pÃ¥ Nordkisa og satt ny personlig rekord med 153 poeng! Det var ogsÃ¥ første gang vi gikk LP1 uten Ã¥ “nulle” i en av øvelsene.
153 poeng er en 2. premie i lydighet, bare 7 små poeng unna 1. premie og opprykk til klasse 2. Vi ble nummer 4 i klassen i dag, en skikkelig oppmuntring og inspirasjon til videre trening!

Posted on May 14, 2010 - by Guro

Agility Training

Last weekend we went to an Agility introduction class, two days with lots of new information and opportunity to try out all the different obstacles that are used on an agility course! We wanted to check out if this type of training was any fun for the doxies and for us. Well, I think it was a blast and from the look of the doxies I’m pretty sure they liked it too!
The class was held in Maridalen just on the outskirts of Oslo, and the trainers were all members of Oslo og Omegn Dressurklubb. They did a great job and really got us interested in this dog sport.

Here’s Aurora trying out some of the obstacles at her first Agility training session!

Posted on October 19, 2009 - by Guro

Leash Training

Here’s Frøya trying to learn how to walk on a leash. Leash training is pretty basic; still it is not that easy to learn! First of all it’s essential that the doxie pays attention to you - and not all the others that may be all around you! Treats or toys are usually good ways to get attention! Once you have the doxies attention you give the command for walking, e.g. “foot”, and then start walking - left leg first. You always start with the left leg when you want the dog to follow you, and remember to reward often! Changing the tempo between normal walk, fast walk and slow walk also help keeping the dogs attention on you. The same goes for right and left turns, or even a full turn. You should not give any commands when making turns, only when you change the tempo. When you stop, the dog shall sit down without any command - use treats when practicing this!

Posted on September 30, 2009 - by Guro

Competition - LP1 Skeidbanen

Skeidbanen, 20.09.2009.
Summer vacation is long gone and it’s time for obedience training, and even an obedience competition to get going again! We haven’t really been training that much this summer and fall, so I wasn’t sure if this was a good idea. However, Aurora has been doing very well on training the last couple of weeks, so we gave it a shot!

Here’s a summary of the exercises:

1. Greeting and Teeth Inspection (”visning av tenner”): 9 points - it was difficult to sit still today!
2. Down and Stay for 2 minutes (”fellesdekk,2 min”): 10 points - I was very nervous, but Aurora did a great job!
3. Walk on a Leash (”lineføring”): 5,5 points - we’re still struggling with this, it’s too easy to get distracted!
4. The Heel (”fri ved foten”): 6 points - same problem as above, however the last part of the exercise was not too bad!
5. Down after stop (”dekk fra holdt”): 5 points - don’t know why we struggle with this one at competitions, first she was slow to sit down and then she wouldn’t sit up at the end of the exercise!
6. Recall from Sit (”innkalling fra sitt”): 8 points - not sure what we got points off for, I think she did this very well - maybe a little slow at the start!
7. The Stand (”stÃ¥ under marsj”): 7 points - a good stand, but lagging behind on the heel part of the exercise!
8. The Jump (”fritt hopp over hinder”): 0 points - I still can’t believe she didn’t jump; she’s been doing this without any problems lately!
9. Overall Impression (”helhetsintrykk”): 6 points - we need to work on better contact/control between the exercises!

In total we got 127 points - a new personal best for us!