High was the first dog that I really committed to train, so I was a lot lost on the beginning and it made me lose a lot of opportunities! but after I realized what I was doing, I ran after time to fix things up, and at first it was so hard because we didn't have a connection... so I started training tricks, what in my point of view is the best thing ever to build a relationship between animal and owner! at first we had a tough time because he didn't know how to think, than he mastered tricks by shaping =)
in agility I got all the way back to fix misunderstandings in both sides, and now I really feel that so desired connection and love, High mean the world to me, and I'm so happy just to look at his amazing eyes avery day, mostly now that I can say we're walking in the right direction!
He put me in so many situations... in the beginning we were training agility in a old fashion school, so I couldn't teach tricks, or use new techniques because "it doesn't work", and I couldn't leave my dog with other people or playing to much with other dogs because "he would lose his focus", and all this stupid things! but High have really strong heart and personality, he always used to bark while running agility and that fine, actually I love noisy dogs, but soon he started biting me, I know he did that for frustration because we did so long runs with so small rewards, but the trainer wanted me to yell at him and when he really bites, beat him... that's when I got to reality and said I'm not doing agility for that! what's the fun?
Since then I'm training on my own, with my sister, and the support of lots of friends on the other side of my country, and that's why I say High was, and will always be, my biggest challenge... and the best one, because after we past through this, we traveled so many times to seminars that I never imagined my parents would let me go, we entered online classes, and we managed to show people from here, that it's not impossible to train a dog with positive methods, and that's actually the best way to go! We also did a lot of socialization, hiking, play times, swims, tricks, obedience, fun agility, cuddles, kisses, sleep overs (on my bedroom haha), and so on! now I can say we managed to get back all we've lost, and I'm so glad I didn't let it go!
"they enjoy the goal but not the process, but the reality of it is that the true work of improving things is in the little achievements every day, and that's what you need to enjoy. "
Before Sunset
things High love:
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| swimming and ball (mostly big ones) |
Koda is my second dog, and I can say he's lucky lol, because I could learn a lot with High and such mistakes we never do twice, so I managed to make a looot different with him, in all the aspects of his life. in training I decided that we would just start when he was not as much fearful and agility would come easily, so I taught him all the tricks I could think, because as I said it builds connection and with that comes trust, so it was the easiest way to overcome his fears, we also did a huge socialization, with places, animals, people, and so on... but even so he's still not sure about people, I guess it's a sheltie thing!
Even not been into people (that are not me) Koda will obey anyone if it's to win his toy! he's a pleasure to work with because we can always see the joy on his eyes, and he learns so fast that it's almost too easy haha, because of all the shaping that we trained he is always offering behavior in exchange of everything and some of this behaviors are so funny that I cry laughing! that's also the reason of my biggest frustrations, as he's such a fast learner it's hard to understand when he's doing something wrong to many times, for example: I'm teaching him to walk in a handstand, and he knows the behavior I want, because we have been training this, but in the beginning of every section he acts like he've never done it before! I guess he just doesn't like some tricks xD it's also my fault, I could have taught him a bit less of shaping lol.
things Koda love:
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| me and training |
I used to watch all this videos on youtube with people teaching agility foundation, and lots of tricks, and obedience, and I found myself so lazy, because everyone can do it all, all we need is desire! and I really wanted that, so now I'm proud of me, because now I see we are doing it all! or at least trying!
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