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The good news is that Spur was delighted with the new tug toy I picked up for him at this weekend's Coyote Kennel Club Trials in Vallejo. The bad news is that he was not very deserving. In fact, he was a rather bad boy. Or maybe mommy was not such a great handler?
The short report is that we failed both classes. There are a series of issues we have been working on, but the bottom line is that they all boil down to the classic issue of dog training: attention.
We handlers are often frustrated when our dogs do great in training, and poorly at trials. We blame it on our own nervousness - that tension runs down the leash, is how the saying goes.
I'm coming to recognize that the problem may be something different. In Spur's case, it's an award-winning lack of attention. He is fascinated by the stewards who enter and leave the ring. He is fixated on the people or dogs who stroll by the ring during our performance. Once he...
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