I took Olive out to practise lots of Gundog Training today and took some videos so I can see how we are doing and where we need to improve. I take her to lots of different locations so she learns to concentrate in different places with different smells. I sometimes bring my other Vizsla, Wiley along, so it is him you will here whining in the background for his turn! He also provides a distraction of other dogs for Olive.So here is what we are working on at the moment...
Retrieves - Olive has improved alot on these lately and delivers to hand 90% of the time. I will still need to work on making the delivery perfect though.
Hidden retrieve - I use rabbit dummy for these as I think it might smell more?!
Retrieve with stop whistle
Water retrieve - she swims well, but only with a shallow entry at the moment, I need to work more on getting her to dive in!
Stop Whistle - I haven't taught her to sit, or go down- she sometimes chooses to go down herself, which is fine so long as she stops.
We also do 'heel' and 'stays' when I remember to do them. So Olive is tired out now after a day of mostly training.
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