Recently we had a few training days that I attended with Hoax & Detour. Both worked well for me and I came away with a ton of tips. One really gave me a kick up the a#se with Detour though.
He was working well and plays ok, tugs when I ask him to and really tugs well after each exercise. Could he tug better? Yes most certainly but I had kind of just let it be thinking this was the best I was gonna get from him. Lauren got on my case a bit about it and I realised how much I was reoffering the tug which encouraged the rebite behaviour instead of a good strong tug. I was trying to encourage- almost beg him to grab and keep the tug. He also wasnt putting his ALL into running, he was going well but he CAN go even faster. My focus for the next few weeks was to up his tug drive and performance and see what happened from there.
So I worked, within a week he had gone from a good tug to a pretty great tug! I had to work damn hard from that point on to win most of the tug games. I did a few different things to get this: A/ actually TRY to win the game! B/ Dont re offer as such. If he lets go: either win the toy and keep it or let him try to get it again but HE has to move into the toy and I make it hard for him to actually grab it. C/ if he lets go, let another dog tug with me instead. D/ do it rough! He loves being ruffed up and smacked as he plays now. There is a notable difference in his agility performance from when he plays ok tug to when he plays GREAT tug, the higher the desire for the toy, the higher the drive for agility... seeemples!
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