| Re: what makes a dog stop working?
I was just talking with one of my training buds he thinks my dog shut down over a correction and lost his confidence in me. *Edit* forgot to mention he stopped by my house. The dog plays fine with him and does OB for him.
I remember the moment, we were doing some heeling in the middle of street (secluded). Four people came out to throw a ball. He looked at the ball instead of me and I gave him a pop for it. He was on a flat collar and it was by no means a hard correction. For whatever reason he shut down because of it. He ran off into the garage and wouldn't do anything else.
We're not going to do anything but be buds for awhile. No training nothing for a couple of weeks. I thnk I'll bring him out to the desert and let him run a bit. |