[nagdu] Obedience

[Emily Michael]

Like Vivianna, I’ve built obedience into my daily activities. When I stand up to go to class, I have York sit and stay while I gather my things. I often have trouble finding a block of time in which to do obedience during the day, so I get little 5 minute snatches whenever I can. And campus is full of distractions, so I change up the location: sometimes I work in a quiet spot. Other times I work in a busier spot. I try to avoid doing obedience in heavily trafficked areas because I don’t want a ton of questions from passersby.
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On Nov 20, 2014, at 8:55 AM, Vivianna via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi Tracy,
> you can try mixing things up in obedience.  like; sit, down, stay, walk away while he’s down and then come.  sit, heal, sit, down, heal, sit, stay, etc etc.
> i am very glad that my dog does not go after food.  i have dropped stuff on her and she just lays there.  when i first got her and accidentally dropped something, i would say, leave it, then find it and pick it up, telling her she was a good girl.
> also, back on the obedience subject, i use it randomly throughout the day.  for example, i am getting on my coat to go outside, sometimes i let my dog run around me like a crazy dog excited to go out, sometimes i will have her sit and wait for me to get ready, then praise her for sitting.
> she’s 5 and a half now but, she still needs consistent work or she starts getting sloppy.  even during this nasty cold i have been walking a minimum of a mile almost every day.  
> good luck.
> 
> Vivianna
> 
> On Nov 20, 2014, at 7:41 AM, Tracy Carcione via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to be good and do my daily obedience exercises.  I try to do them in various places.  What else have people done to jazz them up and keep them interesting and useful?
>> I would like to try them with food around, but I'm not sure I can be quick enough to keep Krokus from snatching the food without some help from someone.  He's really fast, and getting the food would defeat the whole purpose.  But I know it can be done, and would like to know the trick.
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>> Tangentially, when I learned OB at GDB many moons ago, I learned to wait a beat or two after the down before giving the sit, so the dog was responding to the command and not anticipating.  But it seems different at TSE.  It was down sit down sit down sit, with no real time between.  Krokus expects that, and my classmates did it that way, so I was on my first or 2nd down/sit and they had done 3.  Seems odd to me, because Krokus pops up a second after I say down, thinking that's how it's done. Seems to me he should be waiting for my command.
>> Tracy
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