How's everyone doing this week?

Use the comment link below to let me and the rest of us know how practice is proceeding this week and if you have questions or concerns.

Wednesday Night KDTC Class: Report on what you want from class

Behaviors Listed By Two People: Fronts, Stand, Watch/Attention, Calming, Clean Up Toys

Behaviors Listed By One Person: Sits and Downs, Heeling, Finishes, Retreiving, Targeting, Zen, Dog to Dog, Twirl, Paw Cross, Speak, Play Dead, Roll Over.

Goals and comments about other behaviors to include:
4 paws on floor; start comp obedience/rally; use up energy; mainly dog to dog interactions; pay attention to me and not distractions; clicker skills for rally and agility

So I organized these into three tracks, noting some basics that got mentioned that might be needed for some of the more complex behaviors. So I added a fourth track for key basics.

“Good” dog behaviors: calming when excited, dog to dog interactions (watch and zen are basics)

Dog sports and competition: Heeling, fronts, finishes, stand, retrieve, (watch and targeting are basics)

Tricks: clean up toys (retrieve as basic); twirl (targeting as basics); paw cross, speak, play dead, rollover (targeting as basic on last two)

Key basics: watch, targeting, and zen.

So we will focus on these behaviors and use them as we help hone your overall clicker skill.

Wednesday Night 6PM Class--Please Introduce Yourselves Here

Welcome to the students in the new Fall 2008 KDTC Wednesday night 6PM clicker class!! We will have students new to dog training, new to clicker training, not new to dog training, and not new to clicker training, or any combination thereof, in this class. So it is even more important that the instructors, and other students too, get to know each student and their dog. This will allow us to individualize what we do in the class more and meet everyone's needs better.

FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE CLASS ONLY: Tell us your name and your dog's name and well as the appearance, breed or breeds of your dog. Then tell us about you and your dog's experience with dog training generally and with clicker training in particular. Finally let us know some things you are wanting to get out of class. Feel free to share whatever else about yourself or dog that you think is relevant.

So look below and click on the comments link. Type your comment as per the paragraph above in the block that will appear in the right column of the page that will open. Type the verification letters under the block as instructed. Then (if you are not logged into google) check the circle by "name/url" and type in your name and your dog's name. Then either click the orange box to publish the comment immediately or click the blue box to preview it first.