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Heeling Tips & Tricks #43 Figure 8 Handling – Teaching & Building  DESIRE – Perfect Heeling

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Figure 8 Handling
 
How to TEACH & PEFECT Heeling

 
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Figure 8 HANDLER CUES – Think of the Figure 8 as two straight lines through the middle and half circles on the outside.

When practicing your Figure 8 footwork, place chalk lines or yard sticks in an X in the center so you can gauge your steps.

While you are doing a Figure 8, as you move around one post and are close to finishing the half circle, LOOK at the base on the next post you are traveling to in order to help you set your line.

Remember

  • Looking where you are going when practicing the Figure 8 will shift your weight and cue your dog.
  • Walk heel, ball, and toe.
  • Look 1-2′ in front of you and on the ground while practicing your footwork.
  • Looking where you want to go turns your head and shoulders which gives your dog the information that you are turning.
  • Keep your feet close to each other as you round the corner.
  • Maintain an equal distance as you are walking around a post.
  • Practice in slow pace until your footwork is second nature before going at a normal pace.

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Heeling Tips & Tricks #36 – DIG Left Turns Teaching & Building  DESIRE – Perfect Heeling

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DIG Left Turn
 
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 Teaching DIG LEFT TURN
 
REMINDER – DIG= DISTRACTIONS INITIATE GAMES 
 
Often a distraction can cause your dog to lose focus, to worry, or even create a negative experience for your dog.  However, distracting situations are a perfect time for you to turn a possible “negative” experience for your dog into a “positive” one.  If trained appropriately, not only will your dog become more confident, but he will “try harder” and learn to focus more intensely on you no matter what the situation.

DIG is an introduction into proofing and can determine how your dog responds to pressure. It is teaching your dog how to be successful when faced with new locations, environments, and or people. In addition, it is teaching your dog that distractions both visual and auditory, are a rewarding cue to your dog.

This skill cannot be rushed! Work on the DIG skill a few minutes in every training session.

DIG ~ Introduce Left Turn

  • BEFORE training the DIG with the Left Turn, make sure your dog needs to know the left turn concept.
  • Start heeling out of play.  RESIST the habit of always starting your heeling with your dog in an SIT!
  • Heel forward staying at least 10-12” laterally from barrier.
  • As you do the Left Turn, reward and release your dog DURING the turn.  The idea is to make the heads up in the turn desirable.
  • PRE signs of a head drop/lose of focus, can include: your dog dropping his head, changing his gait, ears going back, his mouth closed or opened, etc. Basically any sign that he knows you are approaching something.  Your dog may not actually LOOK at the barrier.  In most cases a dog gives “PRE” signs before actually looking. Your job is to be able to see the PRE signs!
  • Please take your time when teaching and training DIG to your dog.

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