11/19/2025
- Maureen Woolley, Duck & River
- 3 days ago
- 1 min read
We worked in the house and in backyard on a mix of randomly scattered old and a new articles, glove & cell phone case. The strategy Jenn recommended worked ! Both dogs ended up doing down indication for all the articles. They both look back at me and previously I told them to down. Now, they look, well Duck paws at it & then looks, but they drop into down as I’ve decided to look ahead and not at them. So, should I look at them or ahead or should it not matter?
Starting to think that they both would benefit from a pre track warm up with an article down game.
Hoping to do the 2 turn track with a longer leg recommended by Anne but still waiting on tree cutting people who were supposed to be here early this morning and are not at 11:40am.
Great job and I'm glad this went well! My answer would be that you want them to indicate and HOLD that indication for you without needing your acceptance (nod) since they may see an article you can't see our you are in tall grass and they can't see you when they down and you'll have to walk to them. This is key for tdx too. That said, if it is helping early on, try it and see if you do it rotate whether you nod or not, then wean off of it. Slowly build duration of indication.
Others may have differing thoughts on this - would love to hear from them too!