Areas of Training:
Heeling
“Heeling is the obedience exercise in which the handler plays the most important role. A smooth dog and handler team provides a flowing picture. The good handler leads the dance, giving subtle cues that the well-trained dog instantly follows. Conversely, the poor handler weaves and jerks her way around the ring, steps into her dog on halts, steps away on turns, and pretends to do pace changes. This is hard for the dog to follow, and difficult to judge.” (pg 141 of Competition Obedience: A Balance Act)
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- Front attention
- Heel position attention
- Correcting loss of attention
- Find heel 1
- Find heel 2
- Find heel: adding distractions
- Rhythm Heeling – clockwise
- Rhythm heeling 2 – building time and distance
- Rhythm heeling – counterclockwise
- Right Circles
- Left Circles
- Figure 8s
- Slow
- Play running
- Fast
- Heeling Footwork
- About Turn
- Left Turn
- Right Turn
- Halts