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66 Club Challenge Week #6: Focus Shift
The moment you've all been waiting for! Well.... and anyway😂 Sorry it has taken so long.
See how you get on with this exercise, the focus shift. I get the feeling a lot of pet dog trainers will be drilling owners to reward eye contact from their dog. This isn't a bad thing at all, but can your dog also be cued to look at something else? Can you ask them to switch between the two?
Many sports require a dog to be able to focus it's attention on something other than the handler - in protection work this will be a decoy, for agility jumps or other obstacles, hunting dogs will be looking at game and herders at livestock. Most of them are highly rewarding things to be focused on! Teaching your dog to switch between focusing on you and focusing on a "source" of something good helps to balance engagement with disengagement.
You can do this with food or toys. Here I'm revisiting this exercise with Aster after a long time of not training it! It definitely needs some work but you get the idea. Looking forward to your videos! ❤️https://youtube.com/shorts/BMDCceukCtQ?si=U3StJrYynqYI9li2
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66 Club Challenge Week #6: Focus Shift
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