My Dream Job
Well, what else would my dream job be? 
I love working with dogs. And I would love to do it full time. working with the people would be harder, I’m sure, than the dogs. But I hope I can develop the observational skills I know are so critical.
I made this little video.. and I wanted to video Levi doing his dumbbell work anyway! He is such a good boy.
And dangit, ignore that he popped the last weave poll. I haven’t been weaving him because he has a pulled muscle in his right rear leg… so this was just a test!
On this day..
- Jessi is a Doll - 2007
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You’d be a great trainer!!! I certainly would pay you to teach Apollo weave… I have had NO luck on my own!
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LOL Lora weaving is really hard to train. I use the 2×2 method and I love it!
You two are so good together!!! Great camera head butt! Woofs, Johann
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Thanks Johann! LOL I thought the nose pushing over the camera was very cute too!
great video. Loved the head butt at the end. Can I ask, how you trained him to pick up the dumbell? Moxie and I are starting our Open training and we have no clue. I can’t seem to find classes around here that train anything higher than CD level stuff.
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Oh Racheal… the dumbbell is so fun to clicker train! Lucy has an awesome dumbbell and I clicker trained her. Check out this page, it is what I did.. for the most part, though I modified it for my dogs.
http://www.shirleychong.com/keepers/retrieve.html
I used this for Levi and Chase, too. Though Levi is not as solid as Lucy because I haven’t worked him as much. But he is getting better as the video shows!
Basically I clicked and treated at first for them just looking at the dumbbell. Then nose touching it. Then I put peanut butter on it so they would open their mouth for it. And on from there.
I refused to ear pinch my dogs, or use any of the old style retrieve techniques. I love clicker training the dumbbell! Let me know if this helps!
Ahh Levi is doing so well!! Training dogs all day would be my dream job too! Training people would suck though. HAHAHA Wish I could do one without the other!!
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Yeah Christy me too.. the people would be hard, the dogs would be fun!
You should be a professional dog trainer. Just start doing it part time. I know you’d be great. You sounded so enthusiastic in your video. That is what I need to work on. No wonder Ace gets bored with me.
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