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This means that under ever circumstance when you give the DOWN command the dog will drop like a stone. the dog Ralph gibson dog training. This is trained with motivation and then followed with conflict training (see my article on motivational approach to all dog training). None of this training is done on the track. The second thing that a dog must understand is how to track. the dog Solid gold dog food. He must know and understand corners on the track and must be tracking at the required speed. When these two things are trained the dog is ready for the article training. Remember, in every part of dog training it is only possible to train one thing at a time. the dog Free dog training. This is why the dog must first learn the down and also learn to track before it learns to down on articles. When the time comes for article training the track should be done in nice green grass (an easy track) with no turns. The idea is to make the track as simple as possible. We are not training tracking at this point, we are training article during tracking. So we make the track easy. So we have a straight leg track that is maybe 10 yards long with 10 to 15 articles on it. The handler holds his dog on a short leash (his hand is about 2 to 3 feet behind the head of the dog). The dog must be used to the handler being this close during tracking. This is something that should have been done during normal tracking training. Then as the dog approaches an article the handler gives a DOWN command. If things are correct the dog will drop. The handler then calms the dog with his voice and a calm stroke along the back.
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