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Date Posted: 23:25:35 12/19/02 Thu
Author: Mark
Subject: Re: Cross Training Ringsports
In reply to: David 's message, "Re: Cross Training Ringsports" on 12:31:24 12/17/02 Tue

>I would be curious to hear from Mark how easily his
>friend's dogs made the switch from French to Mondio
>and did it produce a stronger dog than one trained
>solely in Mondioring.
>
>Regards,
>
>David
>


Hello again,

I am currently x-training my new French Ring 3 dog over to Mondioring. I thought I would just throw out some of the things that we are doing...

Firstly, I am having him retrieve everything under the sun ! Yesterday, I used a thin metal BBQ skewer on a slick piece of linoleum, a pair of shoes, a wooden spoon, metal spoon, and a milk jug half full of water. Tomorrow it will be several other things.

You can see that I think the retrieve is important in Mondioring ;)

We are also getting the dog a little 'debriefed' from the parameters of FR exercises. we are teaching him that decoys dont always mean bites right away (or sometimes not at all), that send aways can go virtually anywhere, that objects to guard can be other than baskets (GASP), etc.

I try to have him do his positions in the craziest of places and even out of sight. we do strange long downs with weird things as distractions during them. We also are learning how to heel with shopping carts, wheelbarrows and baby strollers.

In bitework, we are finding decoys in strange places, and not necessarily blinds. We are finding strange things all over the field that the decoy can use to get between he and the dog. We are also very importantly learning about the use of hula hoops, bottle curtains, etc during bitework.

In a nutshell, I do think you get a stronger dog going the FR route first. The foundation (and then some) is laid where you dont have to focus as much on the variety in training the exercises until you are at your peak level in FR. I agree with Michael Ellis 110 % in that the environmental stuff cant hurt puppies in any sport work. We do that for FR puppies as well as puppies who may even go to SchH homes.

It seems to me an easier route to go FR then adapt the dog over, or you can do what we do with our younger dogs and train for both. The transition is a lot of fun so far for me and my dog. I cant wait to start trialing in the spring of 2003 if all goes as well as it has been.

Ill stop rambling once again..LOL

Mark

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