{"id":315,"date":"2012-06-26T11:37:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T11:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winningpaws.wordpress.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2012-06-26T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T11:37:37","slug":"food-vs-toys-in-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Food vs Toys in the ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Food vs Toys in the ring<br \/>\n<\/strong>One of the great things about showing over other dog\u00a0competition\u00a0sports, \u00a0is you can &#8220;cheat&#8221; and use anything you can (within reason) to get your dogs attention in the ring.<\/p>\n<p>Treats I think are the common choice. Most dogs are food motivated and treats are a quick and calm way of rewarding your dog\u00a0immediately as well as keeping their attention on you and used as bribery.<\/p>\n<p>Toys are less used in the show ring, but are a keen training tool for non food motivated dogs and a popular training tool for those who have done\/do agility\/obedience it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Toys can be harder. To show good sportsmanship, you do not want to distract other dogs in the ring. Therefore it is not a good idea to be\u00a0squeaking squeaky toys, playing a game of tug\u00a0or playing &#8216;catch&#8217;. However, the use of a toy as a lure is fine. Sometimes, a dog just knowing you have something they want can change the way they work for you, so feel free to take in a small toy that will fit in your pocket and then let your dog have a game after the class, away from the rings.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when in the ring to consider your fellow exhibitors and show good sportsmanship at all times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food vs Toys in the ring One of the great things about showing over other dog\u00a0competition\u00a0sports, \u00a0is you can &#8220;cheat&#8221; and use anything you can (within reason) to get your dogs attention in the ring. Treats I think are the common choice. Most dogs are food motivated and treats are a quick and calm way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[52,90,149,153,155,186,330,403,455],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-show-dog-training","tag-bait","tag-championship-shows","tag-dog-show","tag-dog-showing","tag-dog-training","tag-food","tag-pedigree-dogs","tag-showing-a-dog-in-the-ring","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}