OPEN EXTENDING "PLACE-BACK", Lesson 8, Intro to Casting Right/Left

  OPEN – EXTENDING “PLACE-BACK”: Lesson 8

EXTENDED “PLACE”, INTRO TO CASTING

LESSON 8– To train the ecollar conditioned dog, already doing “Place -Back” or “Back-Place” at 70-80’, to now begin to learn casting principles.

Objective- To teach the ecollar conditioned dog to now accept a new concept using the Place Boards and the Go-Out Command of “Back”. Dog will be taught HOW to move, from a Sit in front of owner, to then go in reverse direction (“Back”) either to left or right based on which hand/arm owner is using. Dog is learning to do a Go-Out and then take instruction, with a new command, to interrupt that Go-Out and follow a new command. *DOG SHOULD KNOW THE RANDOM “SIT” AND TO BE ABLE TO DO SO AT A DISTANCE.*

Training Pattern:

1.       Set up 3 Place Boards (plural), approximately 15’ apart in a straight line.

2.        Dog is heeled to first Place Board on LL. You can use Signal Heel or verbal “Heel”. Dog is facing the other 2 Place Boards.

3.       LL is trailing on ground and in “O” ring position.

4.       Do the hand signal to focus dog. Remember to softly say “Yes” when dog is locked on the next in line Place Board.

5.       Stand up tall and straight and send the dog with the “Place-Back”, LL feeding through your left “O” ring.

6.       As dog gets onto the next in line Place Board, do a verbal “Sit” and if need be put light pressure on LL to stop the dogs forward momentum. Dog is to do a Random Sit on the Place Board. *IF DOG IS NOT FACING OWNER SQUARLY, USE THE FC WEEK 6 ACTIVE SIT MECHANICS TO REPOSITION THE DOG. DOG MUST BE FACING THE OWNER SQUARLY IN A SIT.*

7.       Put the LL in one hand or the other. Example, the LL is in “O” ring in right hand, owner takes a step to their right, dog is NOT to move as implied “Stay” is within the Random “Sit”.  Owner is to put right hand straight up to sky, right inner arm close to right ear, with LL in their right hand as they command, ‘Place-Back”. Dog is to spin in reverse to its LEFT and go to next Place Board. If dog is unsure, owner is to use LL pressure (no ecollar pressure) to simply provide more direction and to repeat the command until dog succeeds.

8.       Owner then proceeds to last Place Board, praises dog and sets them up to repeat the entire sequence going in the direction they started from. Whichever side was not done initially, is now done following the #7 instructions above on the other arm.

9.       Helps to remember that when the owner’s right arm is casting, the dog is turning to its LEFT. When the owner’s left arm is casting, the dog is turning to its RIGHT.

 

PROGRESS BLOCKS

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TEST: 

    Dog must demonstrate ability to GO-TO “Place-Back” using left/right arm casting in both directions.

 

Date: ________________________________________Instructor: ______________________