How about trying one of them collars with that spay can that goes off when they bark and train him when it's on.
Dogs get collarwise very quickly. It'll do me no good to put a citronella collar on him for training when I can't trial with it on. Knowing Strauss, he'll bark through it anyway.
Have you thought of working Strauss in Rally where you can talk to him more?
He has his RN...had points deducted for barking then too. Didn't matter if I talked to him or not. It moves too slowly. I don't care for it as a general whole.
Exactly what kind of physical corrections are you talking about.
Mostly in the heel, when he forges too much and ignores a verbal "Zuruck!" And in the retrieves where I need to correct for breaking the stay.
I get yelled at on verbal corrections too. If he sits too far out on the recall, I tell him "Closer" and he barks continuously as he moves closer, whether I have food/toy or not.
In a match he's much the same as training because I can use corrections. His retrieves are the same in a match or a real show though....sometimes he returns to me, sometimes he doesn't. In training his returns are pretty spot on, but we get to a trial and on the way back he drops the dumbbell and goes to sniff or otherwise ignores me.
He ALWAYS sends, but the returns are beyond poor in anything but training.
Strauss is trained to track, and he's very good at it, but I'm NOT good at laying tracks. I've also never been able to train him how to properly indicate articles, and can't afford a 3 hour drive to track with a group.
I can only do a track if it's laid out on chalk lines or where I can see my own turns....I also get very bored waiting for tracks to age...
Maybe take Strauss to shows and just work on quiet and focus and not actually show?
Unentered dogs aren't allowed on the show grounds
I've always used collar corrections, but when he was younger they were used for everything. As I've moved to more clicker stuff, collar corrections are now issued only after the dog understands an exercise.
How about trying one of them collars with that spay can that goes off when they bark and train him when it's on.
Dogs get collarwise very quickly. It'll do me no good to put a citronella collar on him for training when I can't trial with it on. Knowing Strauss, he'll bark through it anyway.
Have you thought of working Strauss in Rally where you can talk to him more?
He has his RN...had points deducted for barking then too. Didn't matter if I talked to him or not. It moves too slowly. I don't care for it as a general whole.
Exactly what kind of physical corrections are you talking about.
Mostly in the heel, when he forges too much and ignores a verbal "Zuruck!" And in the retrieves where I need to correct for breaking the stay.
I get yelled at on verbal corrections too. If he sits too far out on the recall, I tell him "Closer" and he barks continuously as he moves closer, whether I have food/toy or not.
In a match he's much the same as training because I can use corrections. His retrieves are the same in a match or a real show though....sometimes he returns to me, sometimes he doesn't. In training his returns are pretty spot on, but we get to a trial and on the way back he drops the dumbbell and goes to sniff or otherwise ignores me.
He ALWAYS sends, but the returns are beyond poor in anything but training.
Strauss is trained to track, and he's very good at it, but I'm NOT good at laying tracks. I've also never been able to train him how to properly indicate articles, and can't afford a 3 hour drive to track with a group.
I can only do a track if it's laid out on chalk lines or where I can see my own turns....I also get very bored waiting for tracks to age...
Maybe take Strauss to shows and just work on quiet and focus and not actually show?
Unentered dogs aren't allowed on the show grounds
I've always used collar corrections, but when he was younger they were used for everything. As I've moved to more clicker stuff, collar corrections are now issued only after the dog understands an exercise.