Video: GSD Puppy Vislor Residential Training

[Vislor]

GSD Puppy 'Brody' - Vislor Residential Dog Training - YouTube

GSD Puppy 'Brody' - Vislor Residential Dog Training - YouTube

This is Brody. I think he's 4-5 months (ish) old. He's come all the way from London to our Dog Training Centre in Hereford to learn some basic obedience on a 4 week residential course.

He's a lot younger than most of the dogs we get for residential but he's doing very well so far! He goes home at the end of January

As well as basic heelwork, positions and recall we've socialised him with a mixture of the doggy day care dogs and our own GSD puppies. They all play a very important part in his training.

Enjoy

[Mazz]

Lovely pup, great video and sooooooo cute when he jumps back on the table.
Mazz

[Stuart]

Very good as always Ash,.. but I did think that Brodie would have gone into the down faster/better but he seemed worried that he was high up... if you go back and watch it, almost every time he wanted to lie down, he first looked over the edge of the table

Do you think it worried him a bit, because for him to lie down he had to place his paws over the edge

[Vislor]

Originally Posted by Stuart

Very good as always Ash,.. but I did think that Brodie would have gone into the down faster/better but he seemed worried that he was high up... if you go back and watch it, almost every time he wanted to lie down, he first looked over the edge of the table

Do you think it worried him a bit, because for him to lie down he had to place his paws over the edge

It's cuz I dropped a bit of food on the floor by accident at about 1:50 (if you listen you'll hear it hit the floor and both of us looking down a bit perplexed) and after that he just kept looking down to see if it was still there.

He's not worried at all but if he was it's still a good thing to teach them to overcome stress and to trust me that he is safe. As you can see at the end he just wants to get straight back on (I've never encouraged him to jump on the table when it's that high, it shocked me a bit!).

[Stuart]

Yes, I noticed the droped treat, but he looked a bit uncertain after,... but of course he is only starting,... but I was wondering why on a raised platform at all, I can see it being better for the trainer, but is it better for the dog?..I am guessing that it is, you are the experts, but why is it done that way

[Vislor]

Originally Posted by Stuart

Yes, I noticed the droped treat, but he looked a bit uncertain after,... but of course he is only starting,... but I was wondering why on a raised platform at all, I can see it being better for the trainer, but is it better for the dog?..I am guessing that it is, you are the experts, but why is it done that way

There are lots of advantages to the table. Main reason is to save your back. When you're doing it with lots of dogs everyday it's much easier. Plus it's good to teach the dogs positions in lots of different environments because it's easy for the dog to fall into a habit of thinking 'training field is work place' and then you find on a town street or film set or foreign club your dog suddenly forgets what sit means.

For example dad taught the positions with Kai in a 3 sided box until they were perfect, then took him half a metre outside the box and it was like Kai had never heard the words 'sit, platz, shtet'! Dogs are very context sensitive.

With Anti I practice the positions on the field, in my back garden, on a bench, in a box and on tables. Another good thing to do is say the commands with your back to the dog whilst watching it in a mirror or with you hands on your head or whilst your dancing. If they still do it without the usual body language (usually handler looking and slightly leaning down towards the dog which is the signal most dogs use to sit, rather than the actual command itself) then you know you've got it!

And like I said, overcoming different stressful situations is a vital lesson for a dog to learn. I know that mentioning the words 'stress' and 'dog' on this forum in the same sentence is enough to send some people into a frenzy, but carefully managed stress that teaches dogs cope with all the distractions that real life throws at all of us everyday (see the video of the Staffy that we helPed overcome a chronic fear of cars). It's essential to a dogs (and indeed childrens) upbringing. I think this is where we differ from many dog trainers, we mentally prepare them for the ups and downs of life rather than try to make everything unnaturally fun and positive (though we do have lots of positive and fun times along the way, it's all enhanced by overcoming problems, just like healthy balanced confident people do!).

Brody is starting to do the positions without the need for contact points I can start doing it outside because I don't need to bend down anymore!

[LindaM]

Lovely pup and clearly having fun - he certainly knew the table was a good place

Generally without talking about specific dogs and owners I wonder why such a young pup would have to come to you to be taught these basics. He seemed adorable and would learn very easily if someone put the time in in.

Loved the video, just curious.

[Vislor]

Originally Posted by LindaM

Lovely pup and clearly having fun - he certainly knew the table was a good place

Generally without talking about specific dogs and owners I wonder why such a young pup would have to come to you to be taught these basics. He seemed adorable and would learn very easily if someone put the time in in.

Loved the video, just curious.

The owner basically wanted somewhere for the dog to board in January as its her busiest month in the year (his owner is sort of high profile ). She has an au pair who was looking after him but found he was getting too much for her, so residential training killed two birds with one stone.

He didn't have any real behavioural problems before he came they just wanted him to have the best foundation training. Its perfect for us as its the age we teach all of our dogs these things anyway.

Its infinitely easier to have a dog that understands good habits and manners from the beginning than to fix a dog thats grown up with bad habits and manners. Dad always says to people 'don't let a puppy do anything you wouldn't want a dog to do, its unfair to the dog when you have to fix it later.' I always cringe when I hear people say 'I just let him/her be a puppy' that just translates to me as 'I just let him/her be a hooligan, and now I've got big problems now he/she is a 40kg dog... HELP ME!'

[TandCs]

Lovely pup, I enjoyed watching the video.



Tracy..

[kazP]

It made me smile seeing the pup rush back to the table for more at the end of training. Wish you were nearer...