Re: question for retriever trainers

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tricia9999) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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> I saw someone swim out to her dog to show him where the bird was. Disrupted and
> delayed the whole training session and the old guard was really pissed at her
> for being that way. I'm sure she isn't doing field training anymore, although I
> don't know for sure.

What's funny is that I remember talking to CTM about her doing that
when her 2nd lab, Angel, refused a duck in the ocean.  But she wasn't
showing Angel the duck, she was compelling her to take it.  And
certainly got praise instead of criticism for doing so.

It strikes me that maybe the real difference between the way field
dogs are taught to retrieve and positive obedience retrieve training
is in the proofing, not the teaching.  Field trainers use a method
that combines proofing with the initial training instead of teaching
the behavior and then spending a lot of effort in proofing it.

Lynn K.