The Terrors and I got to practice Barn Hunt today since Baalche is out of commission. Angus is still very much a baby but thanks to Karla Sanders Valley Dog Sports LLC) we were allowed to train what we needed. Angus is a funny dog. He is Terrier tough so one has to run the proverbial tight ship, as hell push it. He is ready to do battle should another dog push him so Ive had to correct him and he is doing real well at ignoring potential aggressors. He is Terrier wild and hes a youngster. He also majors in zoomies and coming when called is not his thing. The tough part is that he is very soft so one cant come down on him or hes crushed. Thus I walk a fine line between control and encouragement. He also will pee on bales which is NOT acceptable and a DQ. Of course he nailed a bale but I was able to correct him. It turned him into a groveling heap, but he didnt pull that on subsequent runs. I grabbed his harness and then carried him outside so he didnt get to play the rest of that run. Youll see in the next videos that he is worried that hell make a mistake, but we were successful. He found rats and he stayed with me. My goal for today was to get a no pee correction on him and to get him to come when called. I achieved both goals. Karla allowed me to use food to reward him for coming and even though he zoomed around as you can see in this first video, he DID come after and got rewarded. He got much better on each run. He is at Open level but he is so much a baby and he needs confidence. Hell get there! I was happy with his work session as I feel we made progress and ended with him feeling successful.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:23:31 +0000