Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Kaiser continue to learn stuff.

Now that I'm back from Tampa I've been spending some time training Kaiser on more useful stuff. Here are some videos I took. Sorry they are all sideways.

Training spot was kinda hard for him to grasp but once he realized that all he had to do was go to his bed and he would get food he started responding very quickly. Its funny because he would do a little jump onto it, spin around and lay down without me even asking him to. After a while the force of him jumping on would slide the bed and it was pretty funny watch his excitement.


Another thing I've been trying to teach him is the leave it command. He does it pretty well. I change the pitch of my voice to sort of forceful command so that he more easily recognizes it as a bad thing. Don't you dare take that! I want to get him to the level where I can tell him to leave it and whatever he is focusing on he will stop and go away. Right now we're just at the stage where I put food on the ground and tell him to leave it and he will turn his head and look away.

This is a great time to teach take it but he doesn't get that yet, lol.



This last vid shows him sitting, waiting, and coming to me while leaving a pile of food untouched. I hope that in the future he will understand that leave it isn't so bad because here you can tell by his body language when he comes that he thinks he's in trouble or something, lol.

2 comments:

Ahna said...

You are SO great at that Travis!!! And good job Kaiser too! But let's be honest, a dog's obedience is only as good as their owners.

Jason said...

Nice work!