Daisy Peel

Yeah.

And then other times I'll go out or I'll even do it in the house.

Some discrimination work where I'll set the dog on a station and put some objects in front of them.

and challenge them to discern which object I want.

And it's tricky because in agility, we have to think before you do.

Yeah.

And it's tricky because in agility we have nowadays, the dog could be looking at a jump.

But they could be asked to take the jump going forward or they could be asked to run past the jump and take it backwards.

And the handler's physical cues look the same.

And, you know, when everybody's moving and running, your physical cues are pretty overwhelming.

And so unless you've got a dog that's really sharp with their verbal skills, at least for mine,

which is probably something I'm doing as a trainer or maybe the dog's natural ability, those verbal skills seem like they require more attention.

Yeah, yeah.

And nowadays I start that training with marker cues, so they have to know the difference between get it and strike.

So if there's a toy in the ground and a toy in my hand.

I think pretty young.

Pretty young.

Because when they're really young, now that I've gotten on the marker train bandwagon or marker queue bandwagon, I think that the food markers, I think you could probably start really young.

I haven't had a puppy since I started all this, but I would imagine, especially with a little border collie puppy, if you take it home at eight weeks, I would be willing to bet by the time it's,

10, 11, 12 weeks, it would know the difference between good yes and search problem because they're so hungry.