January 31, 2009, CHRISTY AND ZORRO, Earn 1st leg towards their Novice Jumpers with a 1st Place, watch below. It was a great run!!!

Weaves and Food Toy

Check out Susan's blog for today. She talks about why it is important not to toss food except in the early stages of 2x2 training AND she addresses how to use a food tug.
http://susangarrett.wordpress.com/
Peggy tried one yesterday and had great success as evidenced in the video below. Look at the distance from the poles that she started Gem and was still able to toss a food toy! It's time for Julie and Christy to switch to a food toy. Be sure the reward you are using is something the dog really likes! I switch the food treat often. Who wants to eat steak every day?!

Clockwise in the photo: the food disc, mesh tug it, a retrieve toy and a tug toy. I am currently using the food disc for 2x2 training. After three weeks of weave training using the food disc I have noticed Coffee sometimes grabs it when I ask her to jump on me. YEAH! Separately I have been working Coffee on a toy retrieve and that toy often varies. I also work on tugging with a braided tug. Coffee is very soft mouthed when it comes to tugging with me.

I have the Tug It! mesh toy Susan mentions. I will introduce Coffee to it this week and let you know how our training goes.

Sydney

Below are videos of dogs learning the weave poles. They are shown in no particular order. Videos were made today.

Coffee 1 Week Ago doing Weaves

This was taken one week ago, January 18th, 2009.

Welcome to Tandem Dog Sports Blog. We are going to try to keep you posted of new information at all times. Check the site to see if class is not being held due to heat or rain. Students can post legs earned, titles earned, or just a little something. We are looking forward to this new way of keeping you informed.

Coffee Stages of the Weave poles

I am still Iworking on the kinks with the blog. Learing curve, etc.....

Today, I video Sydney and Coffee doing weaves. I am going to insert one of them for your viewing pleasure. I will try to load the first video of Coffee doing weaves that I took 1 week ago. I will also add a third video taken today of Coffee completing the poles from a hard entry.