more highlights from the Easter Dog Parade on Sunday in Long Beach... The folks from "Disc Dogs in Southern California" showed off their stuff. They started the show with a really well done demonstration on how to teach your dog to catch frisbees - I had never seen it put as simply yet thoroughly before. Hopefully I'm not forgetting any steps:
- master basic obedience - sit, lie, stay, come
- teach him to like the frisbee as a toy, if this doesn't happen, a trick is to use it as a dog dish for a couple weeks
- make all play sessions short, so that he always is left wanting more
- glide the frisbee across the ground upside down - he can easily pick it up that way
- once that's mastered, advance to rolling the frisbee like a wheel - this teaches mouth/eye coordination
- move on to short tosses to his mouth of just a foot or two distance
- then gradually increase the lengths of the throws
But don't take my writing that just from memory as correct. Search the web for more details. Here's a link to Disc Dogs in SoCal as a starting place:
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