Obedience training with Freya
Freya and I
missed the National Team championships because she started finally her first
heat. Since then we have been working on all ob tasks coming ahead in a higher
classes. My goal has been to work little part at the time and make them as good
as possible. I have also tried to work with her in different places to make
variation skills better. Still lot of work to do but she is ready start
competing with the new rules in August.
Distance Control
One big
project has been distance control. I have done series of training in pair of
two changes (sit-stand, stand-laying down, laying down –sit). I have done this to keep the technique in
super shape. Now I have started to take distance more and more. It comes slowly
together but I like the quality of her work. I hope to build up her confidence
and speed in small pieces. We will see how this goes. Freya is much faster than
Pixie but her staying in one place is the hardest part.
"Square"
Square has
had it challenges. At this point I have been able to make her find a right
place and run in to the square from various distances. Her stop has been little
too slow. This we have worked with Tarja’s constructions where I send Freya to
a target mat and stop her before she reaches it. This has made her stops faster
and she turns right away towards me. We still need some repeats to get this
super stop integrate to the square task. After we have succeeded in this we have nice
and fast square.
Z-walk
Sit-Down-Stand
in movement has becoming nicely together. I have shaped each movement
separately in different positions around me. Then I have done them during heal
work. Freya handles now all three of the positions but we need to work more in
different places and I have to start training her between mark cones as you
have to do in Z-walk. Freya has pretty nice speed to reach to cues and she
holds the positions nicely when I walk behind her. I need to change her focus
more to the front so that her position looks more steady and firm. So some work
with front reward and that should be fixed. I don’t want her to turn her head
when I go behind her.
All
together Freya has been super to work with. She is very focused, high driven
and very fast learner. What more can you ask from a ob dog? She has so good
working attitude that she makes me work better and she makes me smile every
time and Freya smiles all the time. I think we will have a super obedience
carrier and lots of wild memories. Just
love this little girl <3 <3 <3 <3
For next time I try to make videos of all our work..
MLPF
