fickla
Experienced Member
I am currently teaching the 2 pups running contacts with Silvia Trkman's method. However I am having an extremely difficult time knowing when they hit the end of the board vs when they jump. I have improved my rewards as we have progressed over the past week, but feel I am completely screwing up my dogs. I've at least been filming it every day so I can see exactly what they are doing and what my percentage of correct rewards is. Through analysis it does show that both me and the dogs are improving.
My question is what line should I have for rewarding my dogs? The contact zone is 42" and right now I am rewarding for anything where one paw hits at 22" or below. Is this too strict of a critera? Right now my percentage of missing hovers between 60-80% which is way higher than what Silvia reccommends on her website. Perhaps I just raised the board too high (it's about 1ft off the ground right now)...
My question is what line should I have for rewarding my dogs? The contact zone is 42" and right now I am rewarding for anything where one paw hits at 22" or below. Is this too strict of a critera? Right now my percentage of missing hovers between 60-80% which is way higher than what Silvia reccommends on her website. Perhaps I just raised the board too high (it's about 1ft off the ground right now)...