Daisy Peel

And these dogs just absolutely melt.

And he said, we don't see that because we prepare our dogs for that.

We know they're going to encounter it in the work.

And we prepare them for it.

But in agility, you get somebody with their two year old dog that, you know, your dog's gonna be great at agility, it jumps the fence, go for it.

And the dog has had no training.

And they've not been prepared for that moment where they're going to be wrong.

It's pretty interesting.

at least in my opinion, you want to reinforce the dog for good behavior in its crate, but also at some point it's going to behave inappropriately and that behavior needs to be corrected.

Now there are all sorts of different ways people might do that and depending on where you are or what class you're in, you might get lucky and someone would say, well throw a soda can or a water bottle filled with beans or coins at the kennel to get the dog to be quiet.

So sometimes you'll get that as advice but a lot of the time there's no mention of any aversive correction or punishment at all.

So if it's a beginning class and the dogs are spending some time in crates and they're coming out one at a time to do some basic behaviors, it's pretty common to have a visual barrier that you might put up in front, like a cardboard presentation board or something like that.

Or if it's in an agility context and there's typically only one dog loose at a time.

So it's pretty, the environment's pretty sterile to begin with.

The advice might be, well, you just need to dance around more, you need to wiggle your toy more.

I think it's getting better, but you'll hear a lot of times, well, you just need to be more interesting.

Like, what the hell does that mean?

If you knew how to be more interesting, nobody would have to tell you to be more interesting.

So you get coaching, you know, just be more interesting.

Like, well, what the hell does that mean?