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We're traveling around the next two weeks and sending off Annie for the first time. The guy taking her is boarding her with his Mal...he's an experience trainer, not full-time (installs dog fencing), very involved in our local Schutzhund club and known locally. He's doing some training with her but he's pretty open about what he will attempt to train...really based on my interests and goals for her.
So Annie is 8 months old, basic obedience training, but never under compulsion. Low or no food drive, partially my fault for not wanting to carry around the treat bag on miserable MN mornings, but she's not really into food (e.g. her treats are kept on her crate, she never goes for them). She has what I (inexperienced n00b) would call strong prey drive, relatively hard to corrections, and not nervy or aggressive (at all). Dead quiet and calm and focused on the tug work, has never worked with a decoy or a stranger. She has been a hardcore retriever since I picked her up at eight weeks and is super willing to please (anybody).
I would love to get Annie into Schutzhund but the time commitment is too overwhelming. What I do want to get is her started on a job she can have...I think tracking is my best bet, that's something we can do in the nearby fields.
So...I would like the guy to get her started the right way on tracking, I would like him to work on recall as she's bad at it, I would like him to at least take her through some sleeve work just to see how she does on it. Any other thoughts? This will be more boarding than training, so it's really just a couple of things I would expect him to be able to flesh out on her a bit.
We're traveling around the next two weeks and sending off Annie for the first time. The guy taking her is boarding her with his Mal...he's an experience trainer, not full-time (installs dog fencing), very involved in our local Schutzhund club and known locally. He's doing some training with her but he's pretty open about what he will attempt to train...really based on my interests and goals for her.
So Annie is 8 months old, basic obedience training, but never under compulsion. Low or no food drive, partially my fault for not wanting to carry around the treat bag on miserable MN mornings, but she's not really into food (e.g. her treats are kept on her crate, she never goes for them). She has what I (inexperienced n00b) would call strong prey drive, relatively hard to corrections, and not nervy or aggressive (at all). Dead quiet and calm and focused on the tug work, has never worked with a decoy or a stranger. She has been a hardcore retriever since I picked her up at eight weeks and is super willing to please (anybody).
I would love to get Annie into Schutzhund but the time commitment is too overwhelming. What I do want to get is her started on a job she can have...I think tracking is my best bet, that's something we can do in the nearby fields.
So...I would like the guy to get her started the right way on tracking, I would like him to work on recall as she's bad at it, I would like him to at least take her through some sleeve work just to see how she does on it. Any other thoughts? This will be more boarding than training, so it's really just a couple of things I would expect him to be able to flesh out on her a bit.