[nagdu] Obedience

[The Pawpower Pack]

Hi Tracy, 
This thing with the obedience sounds strange to me too.  I would start slowing it down and force him to listen to you, not to anticipate what he thinks is coming.  
You might try putting something really stinky like tuna in a ziploc bag so it smells good but he can't get to it.  Or you can hear him get the bag.  I like to start with my foot on the bag and kind of move the bag with me under my shoe.  I still have the dog on a leash when I start that so I can feel her head go down.  
Good luck! 

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> On Nov 20, 2014, at 7:41 AM, Tracy Carcione via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> 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.
> 
> 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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