Course Details
Struggling to get accurate lines through water with your retrieving dog?
Learn the positive system that makes it clear and fun for your dog to be accurate in their water retrieves.
Did you know that no matter how much your dog loves water, they will still try to cheat around it to get a retrieve faster?
Learn how to shape your dog to enter water, stay in the water and return through the water for a straighter path. A path that makes you look good and makes the sport judges happy! It's a step by step system that really translates to big skills in the field! And it's all done with positive training!
With this course, you could:
- Finally have accurate water blinds
- Have a dog who chooses to hit the water on a cheaty retrieve.
- Be proud of your team's water performances!
All it takes is the right system of shaping and proofing. It makes all the difference! We will cover it all in this Water Honesty winning system!
You'll learn how to :
- Build magnetic value for the water and your water cue.
- Create accurate, straight lines across cheaty coves, along shorelines and down channels. There & Back!
- Make it so your dog chooses the water route at a distance, with no direction from you.
With a simple shift in how you look at water, and some smart +R shaping practices, you can get amazing water performances.
What's in the Course:
- Phase one - Shaping the dog to get into water and keep swimming / moving forward. And putting it on cue.
- Phase two - Adding distance and temptations to your water entry
- Phase three - Creating a Build-A-Blind through cheaty water by Backchaining the process
- Phase Four - Adding land distance and temptation to the entry and return sides.
- Phase Five - Performing the entire Build-A-Blind
- Phase Six - Learn how to transition your Build-A-Blind to new places and other water concepts.
What if you don't have a pond for training?
Most key lessons in this course can be done with a large kiddie pool! Especially if you have two of them. This course is all about shaping the dog to choose the water route when cued, instead of running around it, to get the prize. We can teach all of those parts with kiddie pools. A real pond is ideal to get the real aspect of swimming, but you can do a lot of foundation training before you go to a pond.
What Will Class Be Like?
The goal result of the class is this:
Picture a small pond, or kiddie pool surrounded by flat grassy land. You and your dog on one side of the pond, about 10 feet away from shore. And there's a prize such as a food bowl or retrieve toy on the other side of the pond about 10 feet away from shore.
With this class, you'll be able to send your dog to enter the pond, swim straight across, get out to eat the food, then choose to get back into the water and return to you.
This class will give you the tools to achieve that, if you have the pre-requisites in place.
Each week, you will get a new set of video lessons. We will have periodic zoom calls to talk about key points and take questions. We also have a wonderful private Facebook group page for everyone to post videos and share thoughts. That page still has student posts from last summer's class! Super helpful!
YOU CAN GO AT YOUR OWN PACE !
Or you can follow along with me doing each week's training.
BONUS! To help you go at your own pace, I will do a live zoom CLASSROOM CALL each week, open to all student levels. This is optional and will be recorded and posted for those unable to attend live.
I will go over the video lesson key points for that week's teachings and select a few attendees to share their challenges. You will get the recording of these calls. So when you get to a certain phase of the class, you can go watch the call for that week's materials and hear how to handle the challenges that come up. "
