Everyone has something their dog is good at, you'd probably think Maya's would be being lazy but actually her best thing is she stops right away when I tell her. No one in our class can stop their dog as quick as I can with Maya, even when I had Barney I had to repeat stay a few times

I had to video it not only to show everyone but to show myself later

Now we have never used the mats before, we'd not done it with another dog (was to my left) and nor had we done it landscape so in fact I was quite proud of Maya, despite she messed around the first time she still stopped dead when asked and then the second time she done it correctly (I didn't have any treats-I rarely use them).

We're going to be doing the Gold soon so we are already practicing and I have no doubts Maya will pass

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God luck with the gold

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R.I.P Barney, I had 4 wonderful years with you, Thank you-29/04/06-25/11/09
The dog who saved my life
Proud owner of Maya, the Rescued Alaskan Malamute

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Bless her heart thats very impressive, when you first called maya come i was expecting a charging maya she kinda trotted instead so cute, grizz does the trott too.
Good luck with the gold x

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Thanks and nope she never charges usually strolls it and woo's me on the way nd thanks

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The dog who saved my life
Proud owner of Maya, the Rescued Alaskan Malamute

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Rigth all you viewers of 105 and likers, some more comments would be nice :P

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That's a really good start, she wasn't keen on that carpet type bit was she, bless!

These are pics I'm afraid, not a vid, and quite short for a typical gundog training session, but hopefully you get the idea.

Sit stay waiting for the next command, which will be a recall whistle


Stopped about half way


One thing always worth bearing in mind with directional training, there are at least four, away or back, left, right, and recall! Loads of folk forget that recall bit

She's used to the mat but only for a send away so it must have been confusing to her and the safer option was to go around

That brilliant, yes I used to do something similar with Barney.

I have to say I do love training, it's just so much fun when you and the dogs can enjoy it while following a series of commands.

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R.I.P Barney, I had 4 wonderful years with you, Thank you-29/04/06-25/11/09
The dog who saved my life
Proud owner of Maya, the Rescued Alaskan Malamute

http://www.dog-breeds-plus.com
Mine and My husband's Dog breed website

The thing with the stop is to keep them guessing, otherwise they tend to creep, expecting you to stop them. Where as, if you combine the stop with other exciting training exercises, such as finding somehing to retrive, off to one side a little way, or make it into a game if you can build up distance so recall, stop, recall, stop, etc, etc, that gets them really focussed, and the carpet wouldn't matter one bit. It's also good to keep practising the stop close at hand on lead, to reinforce that stop whistle/verbal command, again, make it into a game as if you're trying to catch her out, but give her the opportunity to get it right

Such a good girl is Maya and so laid back she's almost horizontal, lol!

Well done Maya for showing that Mals don't always have to have food in order to do things, just usually! You could find she would move faster with a treat to look forward to, mine practically run!

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