Kali N. is a 3.3 year old Old English Sheepdog in a private obedience session with me. Here we practice obedience and we work on figure 8’s in the Canine College.
here C this is the 6ot leash said the way she’s reacted to garbage trucks and traffic and other dogs you should never be walking at the end of this leash she should never be walking ahead of you she should learn to walk next to you you have to teach her rules and limits this is my girl fruit this she’s not taking frood from me yet but instead of using a six fot leash and folding up the end of it all the time I want to be at this Lane so why not just use a shorter leash I’m going to put this leash on before I take the other leash off I never want a dog NOA to be off leash she’s a fearful dog she might get away and be hard to catch okay so when I’m walking with her here sit I use my left hand and I just put a little tension straight up to get her to sit look how close I am to her head if I did it over here she could spin around and she could sit facing me I want her to be comfortable in her Lane on the left and next to me so I can EAS hey hey hey good so I can easily go to the right or to the left what I’m doing now is I’m pulling the fur down and the collar up the closer we are to her head and I have this little triangle section between her and I if you could see the triangle the collar is working and it’s being used all the time it needs to be relaxed and loose this is why I have the leash like we call it in a j okay so I’m going to hold the leash almost at the end I don’t get into putting my hand through it but you can I want to keep it about this length I want to keep the the J in the leash I want it to get tight right here I don’t want a longer leash I don’t want it getting tight all the way out here I want to make quick little movements it’s usually all she needs and the idea is to keep her in the right place if we’re walking and she starts to speed I’ll take my left hand and I’ll say I’ll usually go forward and then snap back towards your tail here heel good heel good heel so before I turn I actually make it looser I say heal she turns I say good good he good he she’s looking at the door he good heel good heel I can make a circle to the right heel good good good good good close to her head six now I could have said heel heel heel heel and snapped it five times I didn’t need to I said heal and she needs to know when she’s doing it right CU leici is loose and relax again to make her sit I get real close to her head I lift straight up as soon as she’s sitting I relax it but I keep my hand here if I think she’s going to get up I’m going to say no sit before she gets up if I want to work on stay it’s either a chop or a burst She’s Not Afraid of my hand she’s just a little bit shy I think she came that way when I say stay stay means Allan’s leaving the exercise is good sit good sit good sit good sit baby good sit oh such a pretty pretty girl yes my piece of cheese used to take cheese I have it in my nose good sit good sit so we’re walking the leash when I walk I don’t want it tight I don’t want that triangle tight I want my hand over here and even if she starts to pull I might get a little closer to her and then you can hear the noise mus can makes when it gets tight for a 10 of a second he good he Callie good he here cie good good good here sit yes pretty pretty hey you don’t need to be sniffing the ground she doesn’t need to be doing anything except paying attention to me I clean your eyes no sit now that was just a room noise and you can see how she was reacting to it here good heel back so we can practice now here I’ll make a left Circle real close to her head I check towards the tail and I put my left foot in front of her and I keep stepping around meing with my left foot keeping her head he come on C here good good here baby come on he good he good he good he he so this is a figure eight exercise I have two straight line diagonals and then around both cones I’m going to make two right turns I’m not going to do it like an ice cream cone where it’s rounded on the top I’m going to walk straight I’m going to turn right I’m going to say heel before I turn if she follows me I’m going to say good I’m going to pass the cone I’m going to say heel and I’m going to make a right another right turn I’m going to do the same thing around the other side with left turns I’m going to check towards her tail I’m going to say back I want her comfortable moving it’s called in the Pocket car see a little noise and she’s like what’s that oh my my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness heel C heel here’s the right turn heel good he good he the Lea stay loose I didn’t have to help her at all now here’s a left turn back and block with my left foot see the rear end adjust back see the rear end move over a little bit he Cy here good baby good heel good heel here I can make a circle right here if I want heel good good good heel that heel back heel I can make a left Circle here watch your left R leg good good good good good heel C heel right turn heel you can hear the noise the chain makes it’s just tight for a tenth of a second back back I also notice and walking around she’s afraid of doorways you I don’t know if you be C the door or hit by a door you got to protect our dogs through the doorways especially the ones that close automatically feel yeah good good I can call her to me verly I use food here come on here here sit just sit baby hey hey good de and for I think to either a left finish or right finish a right finish the leash goes in my right hand I take a step with my right foot behind me and over a little to my left I want to get her to the left heel position call go right on she’s back here get her to the other side and when she gets next to me sit good oh she just heard Rock move in his room heel same thing here sit good sit good sit oh what is he doing he’s in the room over over there heyy call C here’s a left finish she follows my left foot I turn her in put my feet together sit and we’re working on her being comfortable and familiar with the heel position heel Cy good heel C the right turn here he right turn here heel good good and when she does it you don’t hear any chain moving back good good that means Down’s coming good good girl he okay that being said we’ll do a little looking for trouble