Michael Ellis on The Basics of Object Guard Training

09/14/21 • 7 min

In this podcast, Michael Ellis explains the basic first steps to training your dog the object guard for sport competition. Training the object guard is one of the harder skills to teach as your dog has to make decisions for themselves on when to bite and not take cues from the decoy or the handler. This excerpt came out of The Foundation of Object Guard Training with Michael Ellis Links: The Foundation of Object Guard Training https://leerburg.com/126.htm - Leerburg Dog Training Podcasts https://leerburg.com/dogtrainingpodcasts.htm - Ask Cindy https://leerburg.com/newcontact.php

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