[nagdu] Obedience

[Sheila Leigland]

I also believe that the dog needs time to respond to your commands and 
also tonot move until the next command. Tees wants to move on more 
quickly than I like.
On 11/20/2014 6:41 AM, Tracy Carcione via nagdu 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.
>
> 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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