Video evaluation..

Today I've had my mum help me with filming all the exercices from obedience class I for Aila, and class II for Vazy. So now I can evaluate my training, and ask you readers for advice. If it's anything you can see that needs working on, just tell me! And please give me some tips on how to do it too..

Vazy down-stay with me playing with a ball and with Aila next to her. I really have to teach her that she can't get up before she gets my "sit" command, 'cause she gets up before that all the time now..


Vazy heelwalking. It acctually looks better from a distance than from my point of view. I think she's advancing a bit too much, and she's not sitting straight, but I'm quite happy with the result anyway..


Vazy heelwalk-down. Here the problem is really that she gets up too early again. But I haven't been practicing the down like this for ages. So it's not too bad. I guess I could have an external reward behind her so that she won't take those 3 steps..


Vazy come-stand. I haven't been practicing this at all! I acctually thought it would come in higher classes, but when I looked today, it was there. So this is something I REALLY have to work on!!


Here you have a failed "sending forwards". I noticed that I've always put out the square in front of her, so then she's been focused on it, and mostly on the cones. When we took her away while we put it out, she didn't see it! Then she got confused....


But after a few tries she got it! Now I just have to practice more on not showing her when I put the cones out, and also with more distance.. But it's only been a few months, and we got a few more months before it's competition time.. So that's alright..


Vazy - retrieve. I haven't been able to practice this for AGES, cause she has a broken tooth, and I think it hurts a bit. I don't wanna ruin everything for the future, so I'm gonna wait until I've had her tooth taken away to practice more. She got the will though. So it shouldn't be too hard later on..


sit- down-stand from a distance. I've really had some problems with this! She always wanted to move forward always taking a few steps for each command. But it's already better, especially with the reward behind her.. I'm quite happy with her progress, eventhough I know she can do the "down" better than in this video.


Now over to Aila!
Here she is doing her "down-stay". She's doing really well for being so young and all. She can stay eventhough I play with Vazy and a ball in front of her.. But she has to practice down-stay to sit a lot more! She can do it from "simple down", but when it's "stay" as well, it's harder, because she's used to getting the release command "aller"..


Aila - heelwalk. She is soooooo FUNNY! Look at her bouncing and turning her head. I just love it, eventhough I'm not sure the judges will. I have to practice the right turn a bit more, I kind of forgot about that, since the left turn is so much harder I've mostly done that. You can see how confused she gets when I turn to the right!


Here is her heelwalk-down. I have to practice more for her to sit and stay. Because she really wants to follow me.. Then she also needs to practice more down to sit. That's hard for her!


I haven't started training the "stand" yet. But I think I'll start with that next week, because I think she knows the "down" well enough by now..

Then we have the retrieve. She's making some progress. Right now I'm trying to get her to pull on it, without getting up from the sit position, so that she'll stop chewing.. We still have a long way to go. But she really loves it, so that's not a problem..


That's all folks! I haven't done everything, like the jump for example. I have to go to the club to practice that a bit more. If anyone cares to join me on wednesday nights, just give me a shout..