PKC September 26-27-28

Raygen qualified in all three of his JWW runs. I was very please with his speed. He even placed 3rd on Sunday. Standard was a different story... one run he knocked the panel jump, on the other run he didn't make the contact of the A-Frame and I am not sure what he did the first day, but it could have been the contact on the Dog-Walk. Only minor mistakes, but we are going to train and we will be ready for December. No more trials here and I am going to a Flyball tournament in October instead of Ririe.

Training Treats #2

Here is the second video of how to make training treats that are all natural and homemade.

Pet Chart

Vote for Raygen on http://petcharts.purina.com/
I was notified this morning that the video has been selected to be in the top Pet Chart list. What a great honor to be selected by just posting on youtube. View my other youtube posts on http://www.youtube.com/user/Astrid66us

Training Treats

Why make it complicated when all you do is cook the liver, cut it inot littel peices and use a treats. No messy blending of the smelly liver, no mixing in fillers. Just plain all natural liver.
How to make liver treats.

GSDOC Classes

I will be offering classes at Golden Spike Obedience Club at the next session.
One will be the first of a series of Clicker classes. "Foundation Clicker" will be for puppies and dogs any age 8 weeks and up.
I will also be offering the Puppy Class, however it will not be a Cicker class.
I am very excited to do both and maybe in the furure will be doing a "Clicker Puppy" class.
Anyone interested can email me directly or contact GSDOC.org

Pupcicle

Been making pupcicles for my dogs and they love it.
Here is how you can make your own, very inexpensive pupcicles.
Get an empty plastic container, any size (cool whip, margarine, yoghurt, glad). Add about an inch of water and some treats. Freeze it. Then add another inch of water and treats and freeze it again. Repeat until the container is full. This is best to be enjoyed outside in the grass.
Food I have used but don't limit yourself to this. Raw beef and water mixture, chicken hearts, chicken liver goop, pieces of beef liver, ground lamb, a milk bone, Charlee Bear, Kibble.
You can also substitute the water. I used blood from the package of the heart I bought and the liver package. Blend liver and water, or pumpkin and water. Boil some chicken (turkey, beef etc) and use the stock.
The bigger the container the longer the entertainment.
Enjoy!

Premack is not Magic

I love using the Premack Principle. In simple terms it is the dog doing something you ask and in return letting the dog have something it really wants. For example.... my dog Raygen loves chasing birds. When we still lived in Vista we were able to use a huge High School field for dog training. Sometimes there were hundreds of birds on the field and Raygen loves to chase them. He would run off the instant we set foot onto the field. One day I decided to use the birds as a reward for him performing a simple task. I asked him to sit and took the leash off and told him to go chase the birds. He loved it! The birds were gone and he came back. There are some rules....

• The environment has to be save (fenced yard, not on a cliff etc.)
• The rewards have to be save (no injuring or killing animals, no food that can hurt the dog, no disturbing of wildlife)
• Ask for behavior the dog knows and can easily perform and make it harder as the dog understand the rule (don't ask for a new behavior)
• Don't call your dog back before he is done getting his reward. Let him enjoy his reward.
• Reward your dog for coming back.