1st Steps in Felicity's Teeter Training

First in the series of "How I Trained Felicity's Teeter".

This episode has a special guest appearance cameo by Josie. Who does so well, even when Fil' tries to break her concentration by rolling the ball in front of her nose. Silly Fillie!!

I'd been playing ball with Fillie for a while, and when she's been playing ball, she doesn't really intake cookies too easily. Fillie loves her some ball (& the bang of the teeter, thanks BANG IT Game!!)

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• dog
• agility
• border
• collie
• puppy
• teeter
• seesaw
• training
• Felicity
• Fillie
• USDAA
• clicker
• tfetch

[mjleia]

How old is your collie in this video? My collie is 6 months and is scared when the teeter bangs, but i think its something she'll grow out of, she's a very small border and was scared of basketballs when she was littler and isn't anymore now sinces shes bigger then them now :)

[EmilySnider]

@mjleia

My girlie was about .... 15mo in this video?? But she played the game at 5mo and wasn't afraid of the bang then, either. It's not something she'll just grow out of (left untreated, it'll just get worse), most likely. You need to work through it (though if it's a fear period, that's different...) but carefully. From what lines is your girlie?

[mjleia]

@EmilySnider

She's from Jawanna Border collies. Shes a very high strung working border collie. What do you mean by a "fear period?" This is my first collie, and im only use to labs sooo this is new territory for me :)

[EmilySnider]

@mjleia

diamondsintheruff (dot) com (dot) DevelopmentalStages (dot) html

[brookie282]

Very nice! I have a few questions...

how does the touches help with training the teeter?

My teeter plank is made out of wood. How can I make mine bang?

Once again, very nice! Thanks SO much for putting this up!

[EmilySnider]

You'll see as I put more videos up.

The teeter we are using is also made of wood...

if you want to make it bang more, you can always put like pie plates or something under the end, and when it hits that it'll likely bang more.

[Leevithedog]

That's so funny in 4:20 when she thinks you threw the ball and just runs and spins :D

[animalfanatic19]

Monkey!!!!!!!! =) What a good little monkey she was filling in for her little sister. She says I'll play the clicker game anyday!!