My dog learned the dogwalk fine, but when I started teaching the teeter, she started to slow down or even stop at the end of the first plank. Why? – Bad Dog Agility Academy

My dog learned the dogwalk fine, but when I started teaching the teeter, she started to slow down or even stop at the end of the first plank. Why?

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  • Early2ride2 says:
    June 28, 2020 at 4:35 pm

    My dog has slowed down on the dog walk, sometimes stopping before she gets to the end of it and looking at me as I try to coax her to do her stopped two on-two off position. Any advice. She is a little faster when I add a treat at the end of it, but without the treat she goes back to walking on it slow. She did do a fly off on it before she got to the down slope one time.

    • Esteban Fernandezlopez says:
      June 28, 2020 at 8:44 pm

      This sounds more like the dog is having confusion about what the criteria for performance should be at the end. With these dogs, I do a lot of work on the end behavior in isolation, without doing the full dog walk. I teach the dog to “assume the position” and put their back legs on the contact and as soon as they do this, I click with a clicker or say “yes!” and immediately release them to food or toy. Then I do this and add an obstacle after the contact, usually a tunnel. After the dog understands the position quite well and also knows the RELEASE cue quite well, I start running the whole dogwalk. The sequence of verbal cues should be “dogwalk” “yes” “tunnel” or “dogwalk” “yes” “get it” for food/toy. Example video: https://baddogagility.com/a-quick-training-tip-for-improving-2-on-2-off-contact-performance/

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