JamieHalverson
Well-Known Member
So proud of my boy! He passed his first birch ORT.
I was pretty confident that HE knew he searches for birch
but I was less confident that *I* would read his alert
.
And, I was kind of worried that we've had less time to train since bringing home Lillie, but he was ON IT!
So now we are going to enter our first NW1 trial in Sept. Can hardly wait!
Ok, so all that said, to any of you who train in NW, Yogi literally walked OVER the entire first row of boxes, flipping them over, stepping on them etc. He's kind of like a bull in a china shop... This is o.k. at an ORT, but can be disqualifying at a trial. Any advice on getting him to be a little more gentle while searching? You really don't want to correct any behavior while searching, or rewarding anything but finding the odor, so I'm kind of at a loss.
I was pretty confident that HE knew he searches for birch
And, I was kind of worried that we've had less time to train since bringing home Lillie, but he was ON IT!
So now we are going to enter our first NW1 trial in Sept. Can hardly wait!
Ok, so all that said, to any of you who train in NW, Yogi literally walked OVER the entire first row of boxes, flipping them over, stepping on them etc. He's kind of like a bull in a china shop... This is o.k. at an ORT, but can be disqualifying at a trial. Any advice on getting him to be a little more gentle while searching? You really don't want to correct any behavior while searching, or rewarding anything but finding the odor, so I'm kind of at a loss.