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As some of you know, I have been working on obedience classes with Cadeau in the hopes of adding some more titles to the other end of his name. We have taken classes in traditional competitive obedience and Rally. I love working with my dogs in obedience, but it has not been a smooth process for us. Cadeau still has major reactive reactions sometimes to the other dogs around him. Despite being in shows all his life with other dogs, he still goes bezerk like an unsocialized dog when he sees certain other dogs. :smstarz:
At any rate, this has slowed down our progress toward competing in obedience and it has also made it difficult to bring him places that we would love to be able to take him.
So, I have been looking for some alternative solutions beyond the classes we have taken so far and I found a camp for reactive dogs. It is in Maryland about an hour from us. It is run by Pat Miller. Some of you know the name. She literally wrote the book on Positive Training. Amazon.com: The Power of Positive Dog Training (9780470241844): Pat Miller: Books
So, I found out today that we got a slot in the camp in June. I am excited and hopeful that this will help us get past these hurdles. I wanted to share my excitement with my friends here.
I also think this will be a nice treat for him since he has to stay home from the specialty and miss out on all the fun there. Of course, he will be having fun visiting our friends at their "Pom" house. He might not want to come home with us after that.
edited to add: this camp is not one where he goes without mom. I will be his handler/trainer. I just wanted to make that clear because I personally think those camps where dogs go without their owners are rarely very successful long term. It usually is about training "us" first.
At any rate, this has slowed down our progress toward competing in obedience and it has also made it difficult to bring him places that we would love to be able to take him.
So, I have been looking for some alternative solutions beyond the classes we have taken so far and I found a camp for reactive dogs. It is in Maryland about an hour from us. It is run by Pat Miller. Some of you know the name. She literally wrote the book on Positive Training. Amazon.com: The Power of Positive Dog Training (9780470241844): Pat Miller: Books
So, I found out today that we got a slot in the camp in June. I am excited and hopeful that this will help us get past these hurdles. I wanted to share my excitement with my friends here.
I also think this will be a nice treat for him since he has to stay home from the specialty and miss out on all the fun there. Of course, he will be having fun visiting our friends at their "Pom" house. He might not want to come home with us after that.
edited to add: this camp is not one where he goes without mom. I will be his handler/trainer. I just wanted to make that clear because I personally think those camps where dogs go without their owners are rarely very successful long term. It usually is about training "us" first.
