Shaping Your Way to Success

I would like to recommend Click to Win for all interested in showing their dog. The techniques helped me/us a lot. I used to show my dogs with little enthusiasm, hunts and field trials being our main joy. But we are breeders, so we show our dogs too. Then I found clickertraining. And this book, so I started training my 4 year old female to gait and stack. Actually working with the dog to get her to show herself off increased my enjoyment of shows (I was suddenly showing something my dog could do, not just how she looked) and (of course) it made my dog suddenly find the whole thing a lot more fun. Bottom line: in her class she went from getting second prizes to 1 first prize/best in class (general show in February) and on to 1 prize with a CQ (Certificate-quality)(breed specific show in May) - and note this: I started clicking for gait and stack in January!
I suddenly find myself doing shows not from obligation, but for fun...and as for my dog...well, let the comment from the judge in February speak for her: "yes! that is what I want to see...a dog that is wagging like crazy from it gets into the ring until it leaves!"
Clicks to Karen for this ;o)