Posts Tagged ‘ dog agility ’

Ginger gets a gold star!

Apr 8th, 2009 | By Mary Hunter | Category: Dog Training

Well, not really. If we gave her a gold star, she’d probably eat it.  But, we are really proud of Ginger because she passed her pre-agility level 1 class Monday night! The last time I wrote about our training classes, I had just increased our reinforcers from measly dog treats to hot dogs and string [...]



Teaching new skills using targeting

Apr 5th, 2009 | By Mary Hunter | Category: Dog Training, Horse Training

Targeting is a great way to teach a horse or a dog (or a goldfish!) new skills or tricks. The animal learns to follow a hand, a stick, or any other sort of object where ever the object might lead. (For the horses, I usually use an empty plastic water bottle duct taped on the [...]