Re: Guess who came to Dinner?


"Judith Althouse" <judyalthouse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Suja said in part..........
Well..... a lot of people I know go for Rally-O instead of traditional
obedience trials, because they find the traditional ones to be rigid and
boring.
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Suja,
I can tell you I did not find obedience training and competition rigid
and boring. I took a basic class in obedience to gain control of the
family dog. I had no intention of showing in obedience. My teachers
were into competing in obedience and did well with their Belgian T's.
That is the primary reason I trained and competed in obedience. My Dobe
gained her titles immediately. She was always at the top of her class,
it was exciting to see if we could be #1. My St Bernard got his titles
too, he was no where near #1, and I was determined that we were going to
finish.
That was in the early 80's. There are many, more exciting things to
train your dogs in today. I had never heard of Rally-O, so I googled
it. That was a special time for me, and very exciting. I would work my
dogs every night. It may be boring for people you know, but it was fun
for me and my dogs.


Be Free.....Judy
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I am sorry to say that I am one of those people who always found dog
training boring. I also don't have the patience to train each day and have
been fortunate enough to have well mannered dogs.
I had to take Devon to obedience class only because it was required in order
to adopt her. The older I get, though, I know consistent obedience training
would definitely be necessary for me and any future dogs I may have, in
order to have good control over them. I will have to just do it and
continue with the next level of classes.
My dogs never went beyond the basic obedience lessons; heel, sit, come.
I will say that Sebastian, Susie and Devon all would do whatever I told them
to do; they were bright enough to understand all my verbal commands and all
had excellent manners.
I do admire people like Diddy and others here who have dogs that are trained
to a higher level of obedience, and wish I had the desire and motivation to
follow through to that level, but I don't. One funny thing is that when I
was 12 years old, I trained four loose neighborhood dogs in obedience
training to what I feel was a fairly high degree of competency. They used
to follow me around. I was extremely interested in dog training at that
age. In those days there were no leash laws and dogs ran loose. I trained
each one to come, heel, sit, stay, down, fetch, retrieve over hurdles; all
done off leash and also with hand signals only. I would have them sit a
long distance away all lined up in a row, then call each one by name to
come, then down mid way, and come again, all off leash while the others
remained in a sit stay position.
I did a good job for a kid, but since then have never had the desire to
train again. I was motivated at that time, because of my love for dogs and
a friend of mine had been taking her dog to regular training lessons and
showed me what they had to do in class. I also attended local training
classes in the park on Saturdays and observed how it was done.
The owners of these dogs must have wondered why their dogs were so well
trained when they returned home at night.


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