Laura Waudby
2 Must-Haves to (successfully) use the NFC Food box in Agility!
If you're lucky enough to have UKI agility around in your area, you'll (hopefully) see a "food box." Picture a small xpen, often with a...
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I'm not great at blogging, but I'm on a roll with videoing my training!! I post daily videos of my puppies learning foundation behaviors for obedience on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok!
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Laura Waudby
- Jul 20
- 5 min
Why I Don't Backchain a Retrieve
Backchaining is one of the best ways to learn a behavior. When you backchain, you start with the end behavior and gradually add one more...
Laura Waudby
- Jun 12
- 4 min
How To Know If You Are Really Ring Ready
Whether it's your 5th sports dog or your first, that leap into your dog's first trials is a huge mix of emotions. Lots of excitement, and...
Laura Waudby
- Jun 4
- 4 min
Gaining Ring Experience... It's Not What You Think (+ A BETTER Option for Ring Confidence)
Note: This blog was originally written for and published on FDSA's blog! I do a lot of trial prep classes and classes designed to help...
Laura Waudby
- Jan 30
- 5 min
Skill Prep And Trial Prep
When you're thinking about preparing your dog for future trials it can feel overwhelming. There are so many things to train and prepare...
Laura Waudby
- Jun 19, 2022
- 8 min
Zen Hand: Focus + Stillness
There are a lot of variations of what I refer to as "Zen hand" coined by the great Sue Ailsby. The basic premise is a hand (closed or...
Laura Waudby
- Mar 27, 2022
- 4 min
Pivoting Without a Prop
In many foundation classes, we focus on teaching the dog how to pivot in heel position with the help of a perch. This can be a difficult...
Laura Waudby
- Oct 30, 2021
- 3 min
Rewards in Heeling
Different reinforcement strategies for heeling based on your dog's temperament.
Laura Waudby
- Sep 8, 2021
- 3 min
Stop Forging in Heel through Reward Placement!
Fix your heeling through changing how you deliver the reward!
Laura Waudby
- Dec 13, 2020
- 4 min
Offered Vs Cued Sessions
The dog needs to know exactly when it's appropriate to offer behaviors on their own and when it's appropriate to have duration and wait for
Laura Waudby
- Aug 26, 2020
- 4 min
Free Cookies in Training?!
What do you do in a training session when your dog makes a mistake? You gave one cue and your dog does a completely different behavior!...
Laura Waudby
- Jan 27, 2020
- 6 min
Reward Placement & Delivery
I put a ton of emphasis on those 3 reward parts in my training and I see that behaviors not only develop faster, but fixing behaviors can of
Laura Waudby
- Nov 3, 2019
- 7 min
Errors in Training: Part 1
What do you do when your dog is making a mistake in the moment? Do you reward the error if you use a cookie? Do you need to make it easier?
Laura Waudby
- Mar 29, 2019
- 5 min
Increasing the Time Between Rewards
Besides having the dog comfortable with working when rewards at a distance, we want to gradually focus on how much work the dog is asked...
Laura Waudby
- Feb 13, 2019
- 4 min
When Can I Stop Feeding So Much?!
Training a Remote Reward Cue One of the questions I see a lot in dog training are people wondering when they can stop rewarding so much! ...
Laura Waudby
- May 6, 2018
- 4 min
Position Changes: Ditching the Prop
I've been thinking about position changes lately as I continue to work on Zumi's stand at a distance for the new AKC cue discrimination...
Laura Waudby
- Apr 10, 2018
- 5 min
Why Dogs Fall Apart in Trials? Part 2: Focus, Proofing, and Arousal Levels
In the last blog post we looked at one (huge) reason why a dog can look brilliant outside the ring but everything seems to go south once...
Laura Waudby
- Mar 22, 2018
- 4 min
Why do dogs fall apart in trials? Part 1: Ring Stress
Why do some dogs seem to fall apart when entering a competition? They look brilliant outside the ring and then once they step through...
Laura Waudby
- Mar 8, 2018
- 5 min
Training a Room Service Marker Cue
It's been almost a decade since I first heard of the idea of using different marker words to tell the dog but the idea is finally...
Laura Waudby
- Feb 23, 2018
- 6 min
Transitioning from Shaping to Silence= Good
A pretty common issue I work on in my classes is getting confident duration on behaviors without needing to provide constant feedback. So...
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