{"id":2160,"date":"2011-12-05T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2011-12-05T10:17:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:17:48","slug":"its-ok-to-get-things-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/?p=2160","title":{"rendered":"It's OK to get things wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Early<\/a>
\nI think Susan Garrett actually covered this better than me, and more eloquently, here.<\/a> But I wrote this a few weeks ago and forgot to post it, so I win really.<\/p>\n

Why do people get so disheartened about their bad training?<\/p>\n

Bad training here meaning making a mistake in your training process, not the dog. Rushing a step, or skipping something, or assuming your dog has a skill that they don’t. It seems to be that an awful lot of people are doing those things and immediately writing off everything they’re doing and that they’ve done, giving up entirely instead of fixing or working around the problem.<\/p>\n

I have to admit, this is not a problem I’ve really had. Failure to meet your ideal perfect standard is really<\/em> irritating. I don’t think I’m ever going to stop being frustrated with my inability to ‘fix’ Dylan’s jumping. But I’m not going to stop working with him in competition and in training, we have fun and he’s challenging me to be a better trainer.<\/p>\n

Kim is a great jumper, with terrible contacts and moderate weaves; Dylan has great contacts and weaves but isn’t such a great jumper. I didn’t know any better when I was training Kim, and I didn’t know enough about teaching a dog to jump with Dylan because Kim was such a natural athlete. With Rio, I hope she’ll have great contacts, weaves, and have great jumping skills, but if there is something I mess up (I’m sure there will be), I’ll still continue training and competing with her. It’s not her fault I’m incompetent.<\/p>\n

I’m sure lots of people will disagree with me, but it feels like all I’ve heard this year is how people have stopped training\/competing with their dog because they made a mistake early in training and for whatever reason, think it’s going to prevent them doing anything in the future. Why?!<\/p>\n

ETA: This is relevant (Mark Laker’s Blog)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think Susan Garrett actually covered this better than me, and more eloquently, here. But I wrote this a few weeks ago and forgot to post it, so I win really. Why do people get so disheartened about their bad training? Bad training here meaning making a mistake in your training process, not the dog. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-yQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}