[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Loose & Easy
- From: "Rockenstein, Zoa L. " <zlrockenstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <Rbuffdogs@xxxxxxx>, <rivendellp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <michel.chaloux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 12:10:20 -0600
Thank you. This is helpful. Are you saying that the two behaviors (GO and
move on a loose lead) are mutually exclusive?
Here is where I am having a problem, as I try to learn to tell good fronts from
faulty fronts: When there is tension on the lead, (i.e. the dog and handler
are pulling on the lead from opposing ends), many dogs appear (at least to me)
to lift whether or not this is a structurally determined behavior. The same
dog, on a loose lead, may display proper movement. Can anyone help me further
with this? I am not trying to be argumentative. I don't know enough to argue!
LOL!!!
Dr. Zoa Rockenstein
RiverRock
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Sent: Thu 12/7/2006 11:51 AM
To: Rockenstein, Zoa L. ; rivendellp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
michel.chaloux@xxxxxxxxxxxx; showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Loose & Easy
In a message dated 12/7/2006 9:43:00 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
zlrockenstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Please tell me more about why they could not be trained to gait
properly on a loose lead when required to. In my experience, they do what we
teach them to do. And they can certainly be a handful if allowed to do
anything their way!
Specialty dogs are taught one thing from puppyhood, and that is to GO! We
encourage it, we covet it, it is the GO and drive that carries them through a
long career. They are conditioned and trained to go and keep going...we have
dogs here that will GO until you or they drop, if you would ask....to keep that
spark we allow this, and it can be toned down after a suitable warm up period .
Sometimes as is the case with Ch. Nitro some of his kids or Callie ...that
warm up period may be 2-3 miles of gaiting BEFORE class time. These dogs get
out and move because they LOVE it, and we never ever dissuade that in them.
It is worth it, because after a looonnnng class, in the heat , with walking and
gaiting, they are fresh and still ready to GO...they don't come apart, only
the handlers and doublers are exhausted at class end.
I prefer the GO ethic in the dogs to the "pitty pat" around the ring politely.
These are working dogs , and should have the ability to work all day, at all
speeds.
Kathy Tank
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