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PRESSURE in the Obedience Ring
or

"Why did my dog NQ he never does this?"

Petra Ford had an interesting Fenzi webinar on Nov. 29, 2020 where she talks about all the PRESSURE that dogs encounter in obedience which can affect their performance with things such as recalls, moving stand, straight fronts, not responding to command discriminations, signals, and much more. 

This game is a fun way that she introduced to help dogs learn and experience PRESSURE from behind. As with all games they must be FUN, the dog must be HAPPY and ENGAGED and not STRESSED.  This video is the very early training I have been doing with Beckett working on helping him experience pressure from behind. There are more pieces to be added such as having a person walk up behind the dog.
I was very interested in why 4 Golden's in a row at the December 2020 National Obedience Championship (NOC) NQed their DIRECTED JUMPING. Then I reflected on the FENZI PRESSURE webinar that Petra gave and realized with experienced dogs as they obviously were, it had to have something to do with pressure ...... 

On Saturdays I have a friend, that I helped with obedience, meet me to work on ring challenges. This week I  had her act as judge adding pressure to Beckett to see what happens especially since we have worked some on pressure from behind as you saw in the last video. This week it was about adding pressure from the judge.

What I found in the DIRECTED JUMPING was fascinating.... He could not do the jump in the direction where the Pam was standing almost next to the jump near the ring.... soooo interesting. Yet he could do it when we changed her position to the corner of ring in front of that jump or when she was on other side of the ring across from the jump.

He could not do his signals when she was near but when she moved he could.

His recall was u-shaped when she walked into him before he passed. When she walked into him and he had passed it was straight. He was OK  when she started walking up to him in his front from recall but when she got close his finish was not perfect.

Video 1: Proofing Ring Pressure from the Judge in Utility Directed Jumping
Video 2: Proofing Ring Pressure from the Judge in Open Recalls

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Video 1: game for pressure from the judge for utility directed jumping
Video 2: Obedience can be fun if the dog learns that the training time with you is a game or perhaps just like learning tricks - happy, fun, lots of treats. We have been exploring pressures on the dog while in the ring that effects their ability to correctly do exercises especially signals, command discrimination, fronts, finishes, heeling and more. While waiting for shows to resume during this very long pandemic we are exploring how to make our obedience work more fun and accurate with games and tricks.  

© cynde leshin