Clean Run Magazine - February 2007 - 17

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your dog can be released from 6' in front of the open channel and run
through the channel to his motivator for his reward 6' beyond the weave
poles you can begin teaching the dog to find the entry using the
around-the-clock method. This exercise is great for working with very
young dogs that should wait to begin actual weave training, and for older
dogs to help them learn to look for the first pole and find entries from
all angles. Starting 6' away from the poles, with the dog on your right,
send your dog to the poles from the 12 o’clock position straight in
front . If your dog is successful, move with your dog a few inches to your
left toward the 1 o’clock position and send the dog again. Each time your
dog is successful move a little more around the clock face to your left,
maintaining a distance of 6' from the weave poles. Your goal is to
eventually be able to send the dog from the 2 o’clock position; but
don’t rush the progression! At some point your dog will fail to bend
around the first pole and he will enter between the second and third pole.
Don’t pull your dog out of the weave poles to correct for a missed entry
or missed pole; simply don’t reward at the end. Go back to the point on
the clock where the dog was last successful and start from there to make
your changes in angle, increasing the angle only in very small increments.
It helps to “ping-pong” back and forth between doing an entry that the
dog presently understands very well and doing a more difficult entry
angle. When you have success with the more difficult entry, go back to an
easier entry before trying the harder one again. Also start to require a
minimum of two successes in a row before progressing along the clock face
and increasing the angle to the entry. If you work carefully through these
early missed entries while not making the angles too severe and only
rewarding correct entries, your dog can reliably learn to put the first
pole on his left. When working the 9 o’clock side of the clock, start
with the dog on your left and gradually move to your right to make the
entries more difficult. 11 10 9 8 7 12 1 2 3 4 When working the 3
o’clock side of the clock, start with the dog on your right and
gradually move to your left to make the entries more difficult. 6 5 6'
Motivator 11 o’clock position and send the dog again. Each time your dog
is successful move a little more around the clock face to your right,
maintaining a distance of 6' from the weave poles. Your goal is to
eventually be able to send the dog from the 10 o’clock position; but
don’t rush the progression. As in the last step, at some point the dog
will fail to make the entry; follow the guidelines above when this
happens. At this stage of the entry training, do not alternate which side
of the weave poles you are working on. In each session, work either toward
2 o’clock or 10 o’clock. The dog will best learn what he is to do if
the task is broken down this way. Switching sides of the clock presents a
very different picture to the dog: when he’s approaching from the left
side of the poles, he needs to find the first pole and wrap around it, but
if he’s approaching from the right side of the poles, he must find the
space between the first and second pole. So for now, take advantage of
pattern training and stay on one side of the clock or the other. Likewise,
don’t start alternating the side of your body that the dog is working on
until the next stage of training. If you are working on the 3 o’clock
side of the clock, start with the dog on your right; if you’re working
on the 9 o’clock side of the clock, start with the dog on your left.
Starting with your dog on your opposite side in either case entails your
doing a rear cross, and the dog isn’t ready to work on that yet. 11 10
12 1 2 3 Once your dog has mastered entries from 10 o’clock to 2
o’clock, begin alternating which side of your body you start the dog on.
9 8 7 6 5 4 6' Motivator Step 6 Once your dog has mastered entries from 10
o’clock to 2 o’clock, begin alternating which side of your body you
start the dog on. So, for example, instead of always having the dog on
your left side when you’re on the 9 o’clock side of the clock,
sometimes send him from your right side and do a rear cross as he enters
the poles. Gradually increase the distance you and the dog start from the
poles with the ultimate goal of being able to send the dog from 15' away
starting from any position between 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock. If you
want a dog that can hit his entry from anywhere, then continue adding more
and more angle to the approach; work toward being able to send the dog to
the poles from any entry between the 9 o’clock and 3 o’clock
positions. Continue around-the-clock training until your dog is proficient
and old enough to begin training his body to weave. Step 5 Work on the
other side of the clock face in a separate training session. Starting 6'
away from the poles, with the dog on your left, send your dog to the poles
from the 12 o’clock position straight in front . If your dog is
successful, move with your dog a few inches to your right toward the
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