Teaching Welsh Corgis Their Name

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Hi! I'm Melanie McElroy with Taurus Training for Expert Village. Today we are going to talk about training dogs. So let's talk about training Corgi's. Corgi's are lovely dogs. They have wonderful corky personalities. They are energetic and are bred to herd animals. So some of the characteristics are a little hard to get a handle on are running and nipping at your heels and your feet. Check our troubleshooting section on tips perhaps of how to deal with that. So we have Gibson here who is a Corgi, an adolescent; Gibby, hi there! Good boy. He's very very distracted by the environment. So the very first thing I want to work on with Gibby is simply playing attention. Of course he is doing a beautiful job right now but it is because I have the treat. But see how he keeps looking off into the distance. He is genetically wired to do that because he is looking for things to herd. He is really interested in those trucks. So I am going to work on with Gibby before anything else is simply getting him to pay attention too me. So we are going to practice the name game. The name game is simply having him respond to h is name. Now there is a little dachshund in the background. I need to set him up to succeed. That is one of our rules about giving commands. Well another dog is absolutely fascinated so I am going to start off with a lure immediately with a tasty treat. Gibby, good! So what I did there was get his attention away from the dachshund with the treat. I said his name and I marked the second he made eye contact and then gave him a treat. Little dotsy still there. Good! Good! So there I am marking and treating even if he just looks at me. Good! Gibby, good! So there when I think it is more likely that he is going to look at me, I start throwing in the name. Gibby, good!. I am getting pretty consistent eye contact when I say his name so I am going to start making the treats more random. Okay. Sit, good, so now Gibby is responding to just a little body language. Oops, I am going to ignore that. Now I will show him what I want him to do. Sit, good! Okay. Little Gibby has a long way to go but at least he is starting to pay attention. Right Gibbs?

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