Escort

I know, I said Iā€™d do a better job keeping up my blog.Ā  What can I say?Ā  I suck. Anyway, Xen is coming up on his one-year birthday!Ā  Heā€™s making really nice progress in his training.Ā  The following video shows training for ā€œobject guardā€. His job is to prevent me from taking the object. My [ā€¦] The post Escort appeared first on Denise Fenzi's Blog.

Escort

I know, I said Iā€™d do a better job keeping up my blog.Ā  What can I say?Ā  I suck.

Anyway, Xen is coming up on his one-year birthday!Ā  Heā€™s making really nice progress in his training.Ā  The following video shows training for ā€œobject guardā€.

His job is to prevent me from taking the object. My job is toā€¦steal it! I can try and intimidate him with noises, carry obstacles, pivot, go backward, etc.Ā  He has to wait until..well.Ā  It depends on what you choose to train. I am teaching him to bite when Iā€™m within a meter.Ā  And then he needs to release on his own when I stop moving in or if I begin to back away, and thenā€¦we do it again.

He has a pretty good clue about this exercise with a toy ā€“ now Iā€™m adding a bite suit.Ā  I also cue him to bite if he doesnā€™t do it on his own, especially with the suit, since I donā€™t want him worrying about getting him right.Ā  Heā€™ll get there eventually.

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