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Subject: [LbNA] Re: Box detecting dogs -training (LONG)
> Hi Shelia,
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> Thanks for your very nice description of training dogs. I really
> enjoy working with animals and always appreciate getting new ideas
> for working with my dogs. Although I have never trained for SAR I
> have been training dogs that I own for about 12 years. when I said I
> could probably teach my dog in an afternoon I was not trying to play
> down the amount of time it takes to train a dog. I am talking about
> a 12 yr old AKC utility dog who has been being trained literally
> since she was 8 weeks old. She & I literaly have thousands of hours
> training together not to mention competing together too. She also
> knows agility & has done some field work. I saw this as an extension
> of many of the behaviors she already knows. Although she is old she
> still has a tremendous amount of drive.
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> I thought that teaching my younger dogs to find letterboxes might be
> an interesting project. They are way less trained than my older dog.
> I just haven't put the hours into them that I did with Katie. A lot
> of the techniques you describe we use for teaching young dogs to
> retrieve birds. I am going to print out your message. I will let
> you know how I make out with my project.
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> Janet
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