Tha art of communicating with your dog, respecting his/her personality and developing talents through training.
Показаны сообщения с ярлыком training. Показать все сообщения
Показаны сообщения с ярлыком training. Показать все сообщения
пятница, 16 января 2015 г.
суббота, 15 ноября 2014 г.
четверг, 21 августа 2014 г.
воскресенье, 13 июля 2014 г.
среда, 14 мая 2014 г.
четверг, 7 ноября 2013 г.
вторник, 5 ноября 2013 г.
How to teach our dog to jump correctly? - Seminar of Andreas Benke
Often a dog tries to avoid the barrier or jumps too low. How to correct jumping? At his seminar in Subotica (Serbia), October 19-20, Andreas Benke gave an answer. The exercise was simple and enjoyable for all participants: two- and four-legged.
среда, 24 июля 2013 г.
воскресенье, 11 ноября 2012 г.
Jumping - team training
I fully share the opinion that dog team training
can be very effective and much more enjoyable for dogs as well as for men. Particularly
it can be useful in exercises where a dog
needs to be brave and sure in his forces. As - for example - in jump training.
A lot of young dogs fail to jump over a fence
because it is something new for them, however they quite able to jump over the fence
physically. In these cases “team jumping” can be a successful method for
developing this skill, which is necessary in mondioring, agility and other
types of cynological sports.
пятница, 9 ноября 2012 г.
Retrieve training of a young malinois. Using positive stimuls
Teaching a dog to take an object.
Retrieve or Rapport d’objet lance –
this is how the exercise is called in the FCI Rules of Mondioring. However, this skill
is considered as necessary in many dogs competitions, tests and exams. Usually
dog masters, trying to teach a dog this exercise, meet with three main
difficulties: the dog rushes to catch object the same moment the object is
thrown; the dog runs to the object but doesn’t take it; and the dog takes the
object and happily runs with him far from the master.
There are many
methodics how to teach a dog to fulfill
the command “apport” and to bring back the thrown object. The most wildly
spread mistake is to try to teach a dog to carry out the whole exercise from
the very beginning. It rarely gives fruitful
results.
It
seems more effective to divide the exercise into several parts and to help your
dog learn it step by step.
How to teach a dog to take
the object? Why he or she will do it?
The dog doesn’t see any obvious
reason for taking it and doesn’t understand why he/she should do it. Many dog
owners begin with pushing the object into dog’s mouth and holding the mouth for
some time. But usually the dog lets the object fall down the moment his/her
owner takes hands away from the mouth as well as the object. Some instructors
even fix the dog for not letting him/her run away or turn the head. To my mind
the only obvious result is that the dog gets a stress and loses any wish to
carry out the exercise.
It seems much more
effective to use positive motivation and increase dog’s interest in the
exercise through something that he/she enjoys – tips, playing with a ball,
biting a toy, etc. For each dog different stimuls should be chosen.
The key figure of the video is young malinois of working line who likes
to bite the toy. So it helped easily to
teach him to take the object. Even showing the toy was a stimul for
him to take the object as he knew that he would be awarded and enjoyed the
exercise. Do not forget to give command “apport” the moment you suggest your
dog to take the object J
вторник, 23 октября 2012 г.
суббота, 20 октября 2012 г.
What is it - the healthy life of your dog?
Most
of the dog owners answering this question will put on the first place good
quality food. Of course, good food with necessary vitamins, and minerals is an
important precondition for maintaining health of a dog. A lot of responsible
dog owners will be surprised to know that regular quality meals, being of
course very important, are not the main thing that keep your dog in good physical
form.
Let’s
not forget that dogs, our pets, are predators. And predators are not always lucky at a hunt. No, I do
not think that our pets should starve, for God’s sake! But feeling hunger from
time to time will cause them no harm. By the way, a lot diseases of our
pets are provoqued by overeating.
As experienced
dog owners consider that the best formula of dog’s health is the following:
good walk and biting once a week.
A
good walk doesn’t mean that your dog walk quietly on a leach. A dog should run
at least four times more than his owner walk. The dog should run and jump and fight playfully. If there is no space for
running it is possible to play with your
dog, for example with disks or balls.
Biting.
A lot of people are afraid of dogs’ aggression. However, aggression is a normal
instinct of dogs as predators. Practically
every dog irrespective of the breed becomes aggressive when protect heir food or
toy. It is possible to suppress the
aggression but it seems more effective to give the dog possibilities to drop
down the aggression. For large breed – shepherd dogs (German shepherd dogs, malinois, herders and a lot of others), dogs, Dobermans etc. - it
can be training with a decoy on a training ground, for medium and small breeds –
active games when they can bite rubber toys, for example.
These
three components – good physical exercises, training or games that increase adrenalin
and help to drop down aggression,
quality food – will provide health and energy of your dog.
The finish of a healthy day: it seems I'll sleep this night on a mat :))
вторник, 16 октября 2012 г.
Malinois: protection of the object – advanced stage
The goal of the next step of the
protection-of-the-object-training is to protect the thing from the decoy who
tries to take the object (a bag, chair, etc.).
The decoy is moving around the dog at the distance of two meters.
The dog bites the decoy only when he
steps inside the circle (remember - the radius of 2 meters?). Once the decoy
tries to go away from that distance, the dog should return to the object.
The most difficult thing in this
training is to teach the dog to come to
the object when the decoy is going away with the dog biting his costume.
суббота, 13 октября 2012 г.
Our malinois. Defense training in Belgrade
When
we came to Serbia one of the priority issue we faced was to find a new
instructor and decoy for our dogs. It’s not no easy task as mondioring is not
very popular in Serbia. However we were lucky to meet a professional instructor
and decoy, an owner of a sport dog center “Balkanika” Dushko Jovanovich. We resumed our training
and our mali made the next step in defense education – attack on the arm.
Mondioring is a very dynamic and exciting kind of cynological sport, which develops many useful skills. Hope it'll gain popularity in Serbia.
воскресенье, 7 октября 2012 г.
A radio collar: to use it or not to use?
My
experience tells me that a rare dog-lover will support using of a radio-collar.
The most popular argument: oh, no! It hurts the dog! Few years ago I was also
strongly against this instrument of education. However, with my new dog – a
strong Alpha Canaan male – I faced the big problem: he was too intolerant
towards male dogs and – unfortunately – he picked from the ground. I met with a
dilemma: either I had difficulties with other dog masters, or I found some
method to make him more civilized. It also necessary to bear in mind that
picking from the ground can be rather dangerous for dogs’ health. I bought a
simple radio collar, got instructions from my trainer and took my dog for a
walk. That collar had seven levels, I never used high ones, only up to the
third level. I pushed the button twice to stop picking and three times to stop
fights. It was enough!
The
next step of my experience with the radio collar was during defense training. I
would not say that it was always successful and produced the best results.
Indeed,
the effect of training with radio collars can very good, however it depends
upon too many factors. It was very effective for some training of my elder dog.
As for my younger one – a malinois – it gives rather poor results, and I prefer
to use usual collars.
Today
I always put on my dogs radio collar while walking in the forest or in the
mountains to have an additional instrument to keep them under control. Low
levels do not hurt at all but it prevent a lot of troubles if you walk with
your dogs in places where there many wild animals, foxes in particular.
I'll appreciate your view on using radio collars. Please, share your experience.
пятница, 28 сентября 2012 г.
Are all dogs good students?
I believe ‘yes’! For many years I work with
two-legged students and come to a conclusion that four-legged students are more
attentive, have more zeal and, what is very important, follow each other’s
better examples.
This short video shows an element of obedience
training (practically, two commands) with three dogs. One of them – a young
herder girl – joined our team only recently. She is not good in focusing her
attention. This is the reason why I decided to train her with my other dogs.
You will see how her attention and interest in the training is growing an she
starts to fulfill the command as her companions.
In the beginning it’s better not to make such a
training long and finish it with a pleasant game.
вторник, 25 сентября 2012 г.
Would you like your dog to protect your bag?
Protection
of an object is an element of defense training, a mondioring exercise and a
rather useful skill in our everyday
life. It’s not very difficult to teach your to protect a bag or other thing you
left for a few minutes. The very beginning can be trained even with a puppy of,
say, six months old, giving him tips. The second step is more difficult and need special equipment as the
dog should bite. The idea is that the dog should stand on the object and keep
under control the circle with the radius of about 2 meters. The dog should
bite only when somebody tries to
approach the object stepping in the circle and let him go when he goes away. In
the video you can see the very process of teaching. Make the training enjoyable like a game!
среда, 5 сентября 2012 г.
Barking. Is it so annoying?
Barking. What is our attitude towards barking?
Of course it depends upon where we live and why we have a dog. If our dog
protects the cattle and barks in case of a danger (a wolf is approaching) we
treat barking as a useful talent. However, most of us live without any cattle.
In a countryside people are used to
various sounds of animals and as a rule do not pay much attention to dog’s
barking. But in a city it is quite
another thing. We can not allow our pets to bark as much as they probably would
like to. What to do if your dog is a big
barker?
Actually
it is rather difficult to make a dog to keep silent as barking is a natural instinct. My opinion
that it is a Sisyphus’s labor to
struggle against what is only natural.
There are a lot of reasons for barking –
protection, anger, joy, invitation to play, etc. Barking is also dependent upon
the breed, character of a dog, age, emotional and physical condition and other reasons.
One can hardly find a universal method how to teach a dog
not to bark. A lot of trainings can be applied, even a special collar can be used for this purpose. But still a lot of masters try to stop barking by simply shouting at a dog.
It is quite
possible to keep this instinct under
control. But for each case of barking
a special method should be selected.
In this post I’d like to share one of my “anti-barking”
experiences.
понедельник, 3 сентября 2012 г.
An enjoyable education of dogs
It seems everybody who has a dog wants his pet
to be well educated and socialized. For this we go to training ground, read
publications and see videos about how to train our pets. However, results are
not always quite satisfied. Very often a dog who does very well all the
exercises “in the class”, do not obey commands while walking. Why? And how to
correct this?
The trick is that many of us consider a walk with a dog as a
relaxing time. I’m afraid it is a delusion. Walking or playing with a dog it is a proper time to train and teach him or
her obedience. Yes, in some sense you
work with your dog constantly. However,
it is not a hard labor, it can be very enjoyable. Just Involve your fantasy and
humor J
суббота, 25 августа 2012 г.
To be a decoy in mondioring.
To work as a decoy in mondioring requires to pass a special test (attestation) and to get a certificate. This test includes various exercises which are used in mondioring championship. There are three levels of competition in mondioring. The third one is the most complicated. Only experienced and most skillfull sportmen with their dogs participate in the third level. It is the dog of the third level which is used in the attestation.
Подписаться на:
Сообщения (Atom)