Basic Dog Training with Greyhound Guru, Dog Behaviourist & Trainer Rachel
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the first thing we need to do is make
sure our Greyhound is focusing on us
good boy and the way we’re going to do
that is we’re gonna wait until he gives
us focus and then we’re going to give
him a reward good boy when he does
something we don’t like so much like
jumps up we’re not going to tell him
he’s wrong because we don’t want to stop
him from giving us behaviors in the
future we want him to be confident to
offer behaviors good dog and as you can
see did notice when I was moving and
then thought about it and decided to
give me focus again
good boy once the dogs giving you focus
the next thing we’re going to do is get
him to do what’s called a hand touch
yeah good boy good boy so when the dog
does a hand touch we want him to focus
and put his nose on the palm of our hand
Judie good boy
well done yeah good dog good boy
so you’ll notice I don’t have the Treat
in my hand when I’m asking him to do
that behavior I have the Treat in one
hand and the other palm and then I give
him the treat what a good boy what a
good boy so he’s not just focusing on
the treats he’s focusing on me and
that’s what I want
yeah good mean good dog so the next
thing that we’re going to ask him to do
there’s a game called it’s your choice
when we play it’s your choice we have
some pieces of treat in our hands like
this we offer our closed hand to the dog
and he will try to get the treat TT good
boy when he leaves my hand I open it
when he tries to take the treat I close
my hand
when he leaves my open hand I pick up
the treat with the other hand and give
it to him and this is an exercise in the
dog learning self-restraint this is an
exercise in the dog figuring out that
the best way to get what he wants is not
to dive in headfirst
it’s to wait and think and maybe offer a
behavior and then he will get what he
needs yeah good boy good dog good dog
good dog well done the next thing we can
teach our dog is we’re going to teach
them a little bit about position so we
want to teach him about heel position
and so we can move them into heel
position against their left side like
that good boy good boy
and we’re just going to feed him in that
position so that he realizes that this
is a really cool place to be the other
place we’re going to teach him about
being its front so that’s with his nose
pointing at my bellybutton
TD good boy good boy and we wanted to be
relatively straight on to us because
later on this position is going to be a
set at the moment it’s not
we need does something like that and
jumps up and we don’t like it very much
once again we don’t tell them we don’t
like it we just don’t reward them good
boy that’s a good boy it’s better good
mean
good dog good dog
well done and we just do a few
repetitions of every behavior we don’t
go on and on for hours the treats that
we use for our obedience training are
chopped up dog well one of the hard dog
roles like posse are more chunky today
we were using Posse young these are
really nice to keep in your pocket
unlike the dog rolls that you get from
the supermarket chilla they are much
better for your dog than the treats that
you can buy and pair cuts they are
really easy to break up once you’re
using them and so yeah they’re my stocks
find them really really palatable so
they’re a really good choice and most
dog clubs that you may join will
recommend those anyway to you as the
best treats for dog training when you
bring your new greyhound home you
shouldn’t rush straight into obedience
training if you start trying to teach
them to sit on the first day you’re not
going to get very far you need to have a
bond with your dog first but you will
from the very beginning start teaching
him about weight start teaching him how
to get in and out of the car start
teaching him to walk nicely on the lead
because even though he probably has been
taught how to do that
your relationship with him is still know
the training and things like we’ve just
shown you’d start about week three or
four depending how food-motivated your
green Henders you might start here in
touch and things like that and week week
one or even week two training for things
like sit we’ll probably wait until week
four or five or even six there are a lot
of dog sports that you can get into with
your greyhound once you’ve built up your
training bond you would start with your
beginner class it’s your local dog club
and once you’ve gone on from the air
there are lots and lots of things you
can do you can do canine good citizen
which is a nationally recognized set of
certificates that you can do there’s
agility training where the dogs jump and
go through tunnels and things like that
and provided your greyhounds not too
large or too old you should be able to
do that many four year old greyhounds
excel at agility so they don’t have to
be very very young but if they’re eight
years old that’s probably too late to be
starting and jollity
there’s obedience training you can do
competition obedience you can do rally
oh so there
lots and lots of different things that
you and your dog can do together which
will reinforce your bond and you’ll have
a great time and meet lots and lots of
people you know I say it’s for line
hunts for line homes for
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