[nagdu] waiting in line

[Cheryl Osborn]

Great idea to tell your dog to follow, but how do you get your dog to
locate the line?

On 5/12/10, Katrin Andberg <katrin at maplewooddog.com> wrote:
> I have taught James how to do this as well.  I started with a "follow" and I
> also taught him "walk up" means "take 1 step forward at a time".  So when I
> wanted to teach him to stand and follow a line I combined the "follow" cue
> and the "walk up" cue and he picked it up very quickly.  Then again James
> has always been good with the follow cue.
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> Katrin
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> Katrin Andberg
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>  <mailto:katrin at maplewooddog.com> katrin at maplewooddog.com
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> I would love to teach Monty to wait patiently in line and to move up when
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> appropriate.  How did those of you who taught this to your dogs do it?  I'm
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> thinking I would teach follow first, then vary the follow to include pauses
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> and then longer and longer pauses.  Am I on the right track?
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> Monty is not a very good follower. *sigh*  He is getting better though.
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> I really haven't worked on anything totally new in the past 6 months.  We
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> have been working just on smoothing out the intricacies of working together.
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> Now that that is well in hand, I think this summer I'll work on adding
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> additional skills.
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> Love all the ideas!
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> Julie
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Cheryl in Mexico
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