Building focus - young Gordon Setter

Building focus. Harris is a young Gordon Setter who came with his human this week. Two main issues
1. Getting over excited in new places
2. Building focus
We worked on the first by just giving him a minute. That minute for young dogs might nit be a minute, it might be 15, or 30. When we allow these dogs a minute, and do it often, my experience is that they start to learn to process new environments more quickly. How do we give him a minute? We slowed down, and stand still, and wait. This is an investment of time and patience which pays of hugely the more you do it.
Secondly, building focus. All his breeding is about focus. Find, stalk and set (point) the bird. We just need to bring out those behaviours. Some might focus on or notice the few jumping behaviours. At this stage, I'm not concerned about them. If we do all the right things, he'll learn to keep his feet on the floor and hold himself in order to have an opportunity to chase the ball (also notice that he canters, rather than sprints for the ball, this is deliberate from us in how we throw the ball).
Lovely work from this duo.
Our web class in Tuesday evening is part 2 of play styles (us and our dog). Part one os available, let me know if you'd like to access them.
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[@ERWINELECTRIC]

Great Job!!

[@GlasgowDogTrainer]

Thank you! Cheers!