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This short video is of Cindy's 6 month old puppy, Endy, working whistle backs with two friends (forrest Micke and Tim Bartlett) who trained within the same system of marker training that we do.
The two significant issues of this video are that Cindy was not present on this training weekend. She was on a trip, so Endy is being handled by two people she doesn't know. Endy is being whistle backed from a situation where she is highly distracted, she will be playing tug with either Forrest or Tim and whistled back by the other.
January 31, 2011 | 5 Minutes, 48 Seconds -
This is the bite suit I bought for my son Jeff, who is featured in this short video. If there was a better suit anywhere I would have bought it for him.
I have been around body bite suits since 1985 and I have never seen a suit that comes close to the quality of these Seynaeve Bite Suits. There are cheaper suits on the market, but when you're faced with an 85 pound adult Malinois, that's a very serious dog, skimping on the protection offered in a suit is not where you want to save money.
January 23, 2011 | 9 Minutes, 56 Seconds -
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This video is of Donna Matey's young pup, Eager, who is only 7 months old, learning how to do upper body bites on Forrest Micke. Mark Keating also helps work Eager on leg bites.
January 20, 2011 | 3 Minutes, 45 Seconds -
My son, Jeff, is learning to be a decoy. The past two weekends we have had our friends here at our new training center for a fun weekend of work. Mark Keating from Red Star Kennels in Hudson, WI and Forrest Micke from Rintininn near Appleton, WI, have been helping Jeff learn decoy skills. In this video, you will see Jeff work Donna Matey's dog, Jackson, and my 17 month old mal puppy, Bart. Both Mark and Forrest are helping Jeff learn the skills needed to work Jackson, who is a three time National Mondioring 3 champion. Jackson is a very well trained dog. He is also a very tough dog, several years ago Jackson broke a decoy's leg in multiple places. He takes Jeff to the ground twice in this video.
January 17, 2011 | 8 Minutes, 10 Seconds -
Mark Keating is a skilled ring decoy who is helping train my son, Jeff, who is an E6 in the Army, how to become a decoy. Mark breeds working Malinois, Presas and Poodles. I recommend you watch this video of Mark's 16 week old Poodle doing clicker work. In some of the future newsletter videos, I will feature Jeff on his road to becoming a training decoy, it's a bumpy road filled with risks.
January 10th, 2011 | 6 Minutes, 1 Second -
I filmed this video back in August of 2008, when Cindy's dog, Rush, was just 11 months old. We were doing our normal training when this cat walked up. It is not our house cat. Rush makes a few mistakes in his send away training, but for an 11 month old puppy it's pretty darn good. I ended up using this footage in the DVD I am editing at the moment, Training the Send Away with Michael Ellis.
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This short video was filmed at The Michael Ellis School for Dog Trainers in California. It is a lecture by Michael explaining his thought on rewarding a dog for how fast it completes an exercise (IE a sit in motion, down in motion, a send away, etc.). This lecture was used in the DVD I am doing with Michael titled Training the Send Away with Michael Ellis.
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In this newsletter, we will watch our friend Forrest Micke practicing his decoy skills under Michael Ellis' supervision. Forrest will first work Donna Matey's dog, Vodka, in an accessory attack. Then he will work Donna's dog, Jackson, in object guard. Jackson has been the United States Mondioring 3 Champion three times! The object guard is one of the most difficult exercises in all dog sports. The dog works completely on his own, he cannot bite until the decoy is close and he must release without being told to do so. This exercise is extremely challenging for the decoy and the dog.
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This short video is of our friend Donna Matey doing whistle backs with her 6 month old puppy, Eager, off bite pillows with Forrest Micke's help. The training steps for this exercise will be covered in a DVD I am producing with Michael Ellis on protection exercises people can do that don't have a decoy or helper.
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This weekend (12.18.2010), we had a few friends over for training. If you have followed our newsletters and streaming videos, you will recognize our friend Jeremy Norton. Jeremy has been in a number of newsletters doing helper or decoy work and working his Mondioring dog, Shrike.
Jeremy recently got a new 8 week old Staffordshire Terrier puppy for his two daughters, Flannery and Harper. He brought it over to our new training center to further its solicitation and training. -
This week I finished another in the series of dog training DVDs I am doing with Michael Ellis. This one is titled Training the Jumps with Michael Ellis. I thought it fitting for this newsletter to include a short video of Michael training his dog Pi in the long jump. The long jump is one of the three jumps that are covered in the new training DVD.
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This video is a training session with Cindy and Rush. They are working on the long jump with Michael Ellis. Rush has problems and Michael is going to help work it out.
If you train competition Dogs and are faced with training a jumping dog, I just finished a new 2 hour and 55 minute DVD called Training the Jumps with Michael Ellis.
I have been producing dog training DVDs since 1982 and think this is the best DVD I have ever seen on training a dog to jump. The fact is, this DVD is 3 DVDs in one.
The first 2 hours of the DVD covers training the hurdle. The hurdle portion of this DVD has an opening segment with a lecture by Michael Ellis on the fundamentals of training the jump. There is an excellent chapter on touch pads. There is a step-by-step on how to approach training the hurdle, a chapter on the retrieve over the hurdle, one on proofing and a detailed review of the hurdle by Michael.
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This is video of Ed's 15 month old puppy, Bart, working on protection work with Forrest Micke. Bart is working on a bungee and the work is focused on getting him to relax in front of the decoy while at the same time, keeping correct biting skills. The end of the video is of Bart's first session on upper body bites. Bart is being trained for the Mondioring Sport.
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This video was filmed in our training facility here at Leerburg over the weekend. It is of Forrest Micke and his 6 month old puppy, El. El is a litter mate to Cindy's puppy Endy. Forrest is a professional dog trainer who runs a boarding-training facility here in Wisconsin. He trains in our system of dog training and is very good, which is evident in this video. In the coming weeks, I will include video of Forrest doing decoy work on our personal dogs here at Leerburg.
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Today’s video is of Cindy and her 6 month old puppy, Endy, doing foundational protection work on leg sleeves with Jeremy Norton.
The leg sleeves that Jeremy is using are Seynaeve leg sleeves from Belgium. You will see in this video why we import and Seynaeve equipment. In our opinion, it is some of the best in the world. We use these leg sleeves on young puppies that have mouths large enough to bite the sleeve and adult dogs that are safe on the legs.
In the coming year, I will be producing decoy training DVDs and bite work training DVDs with our friend Michael Ellis. These DVDs will go into infinite detail of of the training steps for the work your watching here, plus more advanced work.
In this video, Cindy and Jeremy are working on the foundation techniques for bite development that all young dogs should go through. The specifics of exactly what is being done and why will be covered in the DVD that Michael and I do next year. Jeremy is a certified Mondioring decoy and has been trained in Michael's system. -
Today's video is a small portion of Michael Ellis' clinic on Decoy or Helper Training at his school for dog trainer's in California.
This short lecture is about preventing face bites and hand bites on the decoy during protection work.
While getting bit in the face or hand is not a common thing in protection training dogs, whether for police service work or one of the biting dog sports, it does occassionally happen. When it happens, it's almost exclusively the result of the decoy making a mistake.
Michael explains some of the mistakes in this video. If you or your police department has an interest in learning to be a decoy, I would strongly suggest Michael's decoy clinic.
Next year, Micheal and I plan on producing a few decoy training DVDs that will compliment this clinic. -
Today's video is a training session of Donna Matey with her puppy, Eager. Donna has won the Mondioring Three Championships 3 times with Eager's father, Jackson. Eager is a litter mate to Cindy's female puppy, Endy. I have a number of free streaming videos of Cindy and Endy on our website.
Donna trains in Michael Ellis' system. If you watch, she turns a training session into a play session with rules.
In 2011, Michael will start a new course at his school in California on how to build a better relationship with your dog through play games. I plan on doing a training DVD on this work. -
Today's short video shows MIchael Ellis' assistant Lindsey Sommer working on engagement with her puppy.
What you see here is a learned endeavor with a puppy. Lindsey is teaching the puppy to stay engaged. She is giving the puppy reasons to want to be with her and to want what she has.
When a trainer can get their dog to be this engaged with them, they have a dog that is ready to start to learn more advanced exercises. When you stop and think about it, if a dog is not engaged or it doesn't want to be with it's handler or it doesn't want what it's handler has, then how can anyone teach that dog an exercise? The only answer to this question is they can't and the only way to train a dog that is not engaged is to use force in the training.
Lindsey was one of Michael's first students at his school near San Francisco, California. She has studied Michael's system and has become an instructor in the school. -
This short video is of our friend, Jeremy Norton, teaching a new decoy how to target a dog to a specific part of his upper body as a dog jumps an obstacle, in this case an agility tunnel. This video demonstrates why decoys in the Mondioring sport have to very coordinated, very fast and well trained. This is not a training video, it's offered only as a demonstration. The bites are displayed in normal speed, then in slow motion.
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Today's video is of Michael Ellis giving a lecture on one of his protection dog classes at his school in California. This lecture deals with a talk on presentation, targeting and biting surfaces.
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