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In RL does anyone here train/compete in Obedience or Rally-O? Would love to chat with anyone who does as I'm interested, been training for Rally-O for awhile with my pup and *hopefully* on my way to future competition.

TCrown

I do train in real life with my dogs, but our qualifications are so different from what they seem to be on here, and I think in real life too, that I wouldn't be much good to talk to!!

I training my Aussies for both.

Rebel,

How long have you been training and how's it going? Are you training for future competition?

TCrown

since the beginning of the year. It's going great, we're almost ready for our first competition.

I know it's an old post but I can't resist. I've trained/trialed 5 dogs through Rally Excellent including my little live wire GSD who actually hated Rally. She LOVES Obedience, the ability to stretch out and prance. Ryka has her CD as well and we're almost ready for open. Back when I played here originally I had a Siberian who had her CD (with an average of 193!). My Lakeland is just a year but we're entered in rally novice this month so fingers crossed..

We do Agility as well though I'm the problem there!

Becca

I have one Parson Russell Terrier with an RAE, a hairless Chinese Crested with two RAE legs, and an Italian Greyhound entered for her first trial in April. The PRT was trained through novice obedience, but was never shown in obedience due to health issues that stopped her from showing altogether. The CC is trained through novice, and will get her CD this year.

It's a BLAST. They love, love, love it.

Have trained a couple dogs thru utility tho no titles at that level, one became dog aggressive and the other's hips became too bad. Pems aren't the best obed dogs. Kinda went off to agility after got into that, more fun. Rally's a good fun sport too. Have put on several rally titles too, but I fully admit I've never trained rally nor really know the exercises The dogs are good at generalizing and have had enough of an obed/agility background that it's no biggie as long as I don't mess things up.

hi

i just had 4 puupies and they are aussi babies. I have 3 males and 2 girls. if you are looking for a puppy let me know.

Please post in the appropriate forum. Your post belongs in the Dogs For Sale forum, not here.

well if you think you are so smart then what breed do you have?

I just started rally with my dog (1.5 year old pointer.) We earned our RN at our second show, but we have sooooo much work to do still. He's only been to 3 shows, but he is a huge sniffer. We tried one novice obedience match and he actually seemed to sniff less in that ring than in the rally ring, but maybe it was the time of day (i.e. we did rally in the morning and the match in the late afternoon and he was pretty tired by then, I think.)

Anyways...I've been spending more time on getting/keeping his attention in distracting environments more and I'm trying a different strategy that someone recently advised me to try (and I'm willing to try anything at this point to get better results, though I know my boy is still pretty young too.) I've started using a clicker and clicking when he looks away...which then causes him to look at me and at that point I give him a treat. It's completely opposite from what I was previously told (i.e. click n' treat when he looks at you), but it seems to be so much more effective for my dog.

We will be doing another show in May and I hope the new attention training will pay off, if even only a minor improvement. The show is going to be held on an ever so tempting packed dirt arena floor, so we will see...

I took Rally-O classes with my sheltie, to find out that it just wasn't his forte.

My usually high-energy, bouncing off the walls pain in the neck fell asleep.