| Had a good water training day
Grim has only done a few boat trainings and he likes to bark his head off when he gets on the boat. No way I was going to take that.
We had a breakthrough yesterday - I have not been much for correcting a dog while doing scent work but we got him way out in the lake away from source and I grabbed his caller, and gave him a strong "no bark" correction. Had to correct him three times then he settled. When he hit scent he started barking again but I am ok with him barking then. We also had him working the front of the boat real well by oversteering. [keep going in the direction his body is headed until you run out of scent and he moves to get back into scent]
Next time out - no barking at all until we hit scent. So we ended there with a huge reward session.
Also working on having him follow it down the side of the boat as we go over it now. | 
04-28-2008, 08:50 AM
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