Dogwalk woes.
Dec. 9th, 2010 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aardogsPanic's dogwalk is wonderful. Panic's dogwalk is horrible. Panic's dogwalk is creepy and slow. Panic's dogwalk is fast and confident. Panic understands my criteria. Panic has no idea what the hell I want from him and stresses out when he is wrong.
What happened to his dogwalk? I have no idea. It goes back and forth so often and I don't know what to do about it. It goes from being awesome to being terrible every single time he does it. It is my training? Of course it must be, but I don't know where I went wrong and I certainly don't know how to go about mending it. I know a quick fix is not going to work, but does that mean that I have to go back to the very beginning and retrain it from scratch? Every time I actually seem to go out and work on it, it just seems to get worse and worse, and by the end of the session it's like he has no idea what he is doing and he is completely stressed out. I don't want the dogwalk to be stressful for him, so my main method has just been to ignore whatever he gives me. But that is certainly going to backfire, or already is, because he misses a lot of dogwalks. What do I do? I refuse to go back to a 2o2o, but this is stressing me out, and I hate it. I just really don't know where my training went wrong. Maybe I am just not good enough to train a succesful running dogwalk.
What happened to his dogwalk? I have no idea. It goes back and forth so often and I don't know what to do about it. It goes from being awesome to being terrible every single time he does it. It is my training? Of course it must be, but I don't know where I went wrong and I certainly don't know how to go about mending it. I know a quick fix is not going to work, but does that mean that I have to go back to the very beginning and retrain it from scratch? Every time I actually seem to go out and work on it, it just seems to get worse and worse, and by the end of the session it's like he has no idea what he is doing and he is completely stressed out. I don't want the dogwalk to be stressful for him, so my main method has just been to ignore whatever he gives me. But that is certainly going to backfire, or already is, because he misses a lot of dogwalks. What do I do? I refuse to go back to a 2o2o, but this is stressing me out, and I hate it. I just really don't know where my training went wrong. Maybe I am just not good enough to train a succesful running dogwalk.
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:33 pm (UTC)When Meri went through her first heat cycle, I was starting to do teeter work with her and she developed a motion sensitivity to which she wouldn't go NEAR the teeter. She wouldn't even get on a baby teeter or a wobble board. So I went back to the first step, paw on wobble board, treat. Did that for a few days and then upped the ante and within the week she was back playing on the wobble board and I introduced the teeter back in.
Anyway, that's my 2cents.