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Let’s By Helix Fairweather, photos by Clean Run Play! A Fail-safe Plan to Teach Your Dog to Love Toys, Part 1 Have you ever noticed how often the great agility training techniques start off with, Ò Get your dogÕ s favorite toy and Ó ? If your dog is not toy-motivated, this tends to get rather discouraging after a bit. ThereÕ s a lot to be gained by using toys in agility. Playing a rousing game of tug, then sending your dog over a jump, and rewarding with another game of tug really builds a sense of agility as a fun game for both of you. In addition, being able to toss a toy out ahead of a dog that loves his toy is a terrific asset because it teaches him to drive away from the handler. For a long time, as the owner of non-toy-motivated dogs, I felt left out of the fun. Two of my dogs were mostly non-toy-motivated. There are a lot of great articles written about how to motivate a non-toymotivated dog. One of my favorites is Susan Garrett’s article on creating a motivating toy (www.clickerdogs.com/createamotivatingtoy.htm).These techniques certainly work for some dogs. But if you have dogs like mine, wiggling, enticing, keeping the toy special, playing with it myself, making a big fuss out of it, and keeping it in a special drawer, all these activities turn him off. I used to pull the “special” toy out of the special drawer and start to make a big fuss and Brady (Beardie) would bark once at me and leave the room! BJ, my Havanese, was similarly unimpressed with my playing with something I pulled out of a drawer. I tried many suggestions. Friends gave me many toys: “Here this one is irresistible to any dog.” I still have a huge backlog of toys from all the donations of sure-fire toys. I would try, give up, then shelve the whole idea. Then I would read a great article that required use of a toy, get inspired to try again, and fail. One day I decided that I’m a clicker trainer, so I can train for what I want. If what I want is to be able to toss a toy ahead of my dog and have him run to it with enthusiasm, then by golly, I can train that! And so I did. I trained Brady to interact with a toy but it was clearly a trained behavior. Brady had no real interest in playing with the toys that she and I worked with. I could leave them lying around on the living room floor and she would never grab one up to play with it or bring it to me, insisting we play. Yet if you see a video clip of our early training, it certainly looks like she’s having a good time interacting with me and with the toy. I decided to try a new approach. March 10 | Clean Run
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Clean Run Magazine - March 2010
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Clean Run Magazine - March 2010
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010
Contents
Editorializing: Math, Cooking, and Agility
Tip of the Month
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility…
Backyard Dogs
You Do What? Canine Massage for the Performance Dog
Performance Analysis: Assessing Current Performance and Developing a Training Plan
It’s Your Turn! Cue #2: The Pull
Power Paws Drills: Lead-outs
Agility Equipment Unwrapped, Part 2
Can You Handle It?
When Pigs Fly: The Release, You Can’t Stop If You Haven’t Started
10 Tips for Training for NADAC Success (Without Compromising Your Ability to Compete Successfully in Other Venues), Part 2
Unintentional Training Lessons
Nested Courses for a Small Universe
Let’s Play! A Fail-safe Plan to Teach Your Dog to Love Toys, Part 1
Preventing Re-injury after Soft-tissue Injuries
Shelter Champs: Maggie
Finding Your Lost Dog
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Clean Run Magazine - March 2010
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 2
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Contents
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 4
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Editorializing: Math, Cooking, and Agility
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Tip of the Month
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility…
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Backyard Dogs
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 9
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 10
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - You Do What? Canine Massage for the Performance Dog
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 12
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 13
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 14
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 15
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 16
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Performance Analysis: Assessing Current Performance and Developing a Training Plan
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Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 19
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 20
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 21
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 22
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 23
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - It’s Your Turn! Cue #2: The Pull
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Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 28
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 29
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 30
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Power Paws Drills: Lead-outs
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 32
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 33
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 34
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 35
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Agility Equipment Unwrapped, Part 2
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 37
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 38
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 39
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 40
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 41
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Can You Handle It?
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 43
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 44
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - When Pigs Fly: The Release, You Can’t Stop If You Haven’t Started
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Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 47
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 48
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 49
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 50
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 51
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 52
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 10 Tips for Training for NADAC Success (Without Compromising Your Ability to Compete Successfully in Other Venues), Part 2
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 54
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 55
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 56
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 57
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Unintentional Training Lessons
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 59
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 60
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Nested Courses for a Small Universe
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 62
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Let’s Play! A Fail-safe Plan to Teach Your Dog to Love Toys, Part 1
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 64
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 65
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 66
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 67
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Preventing Re-injury after Soft-tissue Injuries
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 69
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 70
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 71
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Shelter Champs: Maggie
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 73
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - 74
Clean Run Magazine - March 2010 - Finding Your Lost Dog
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