Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Our CONFIDENT Graduates!

Congrats to our Cool, Calm and Confident graduates!  The handlers and dogs worked together to build confidence through the use of obstacles, sound and movement.  GREAT job guys!


Building confidence by using noise. The soft noise of the pin replaces the clicker. When the dogs knock over the pins to make a noise they get rewarded. Watch the drive of the dogs in the following photos. The dogs want to make noise to get that reward!

Luke

Carly

Ella

After weeks of rewarding for making soft noise, it was time to increase to our loudest noise! Would they have enough drive to knock everything down, even the coke cans?

Luke did it!

Ella did it!

Carly did it too!

The stare down!  I ain't afraid of no noisy bottle!

Jump!  Jump!  Jump! Carly!

Confidence with movement! We started with small boards and subtle movements and rewarded the dogs for the slightest movement. Movement became the clicker! Now Avery and Ella are rocking together!

The bridge that leads to nowhere?  Nope, the bridge that leads to CONFIDENCE!

Ella jumping hay bales.  This was one of our favorites!

Go Ella Go!

Great job Carly!

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