Dog Training

This was our beginning: I've resorted to sewing squeakers into make shift toy fabric fleece because of the destruction rate.  Now I'm afraid that using old socks as a fabric for toys, I would be setting a bad precedent. 

Just filled the candy dish with broken beef lung.  Also, little cups strategically located through out the house for quick reward.

One of Amber's first goal was "go paws" command and pointing to an inverted rubber bowl.  The Paws command is to differentiate between that and the future learning of "go feet".  I had to find a bowl at a farm supply store.  The bowl is a good target tool.  She also knows "go box" and sits in a perfectly sized box.

We learned how to use a "switch" command indicating that the dog should turn away from us.  The confusing part was the habit of changing hands.  Switch when you want to go in the opposite direction.

Lisa teaches us point and switch.  Here's how the switch is used in agility by pointing to an imaginary line on the path then changing the arm without dropping the pointing arm (dropping the arm indicates come to me as the hand goes down toward one's side).  Meanwhile raising the opposite hand known as "don't spill the beer".

I've ordered a Lotus Ball after seeing how others used one to target out and direct reward.

https://www.cleanrun.com/product/lotus_ball_small/index.cfm