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I'm somehow frightened to use a clicker for agility training probably because I feel comfortable it what we achieve without one. Shippo is going to be a hell of a performer. I'd love to see a sequence of what he can do when you have completed at least the first few stages of his education.
Taylor stretches sometimes too - especially when I or my wife arrive home in the car and are parking the vehicle in the garage. Taylor will be near the other end in side the garage by the internal door, and he will stretch out. And he does this on the odd occasion when we go to my son's school and into the school grounds where kids (sometimes in droves) beeline towards him. I think it is a form of winding up or winding down in the expectation of what happens next - meeting and greeting.
Dogs yawn not because of tiredness - but because of the winding up or winding down processes of expectation.
I think you should make a barking sound as part of your training him to speak on request. I taught three of my Corgis to sneeze on request. It got really funny and crazy - I would sneeze, the Corgi would sneeze, I would sneeze and rattle my head at the same time, the Corgi would do the same. On and on it would go until I decided that seven or eiight in a row were enough.
Mind you if Taylor knew the sneezing trick, we wouild have easily won the Best Dog Trick contest at a recent carnival.
At the moment I am suppose to be training Taylor to run fast with me strictly at heel and off-leash in a long line before going into circles of eight. I think we need more concerted efforts than what has transpired thus far.
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