{"id":81,"date":"2012-02-20T19:04:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T19:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winningpaws.wordpress.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2012-02-20T19:04:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T19:04:49","slug":"nothing-in-life-comes-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Nothing in life comes for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nothing in life comes for free<\/strong><br \/>\nI saw this picture the other day and just had to share with you all. It is so true on two aspects and worth remembering at all times when training and handling your dog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/free-stack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-73 aligncenter\" title=\"free stack\" src=\"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/free-stack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Firstly there\u2019s the judge asking for a free stack (or stand as we would say in the UK!) This is becoming more common for judges to ask for a free stand, normally at the end of the movement. This gives the judge a chance to see the dog stand in its own way and doesn\u2019t allow the good handler to hide any faults. Therefore it is important to teach all dogs to free stand and extra work put into those normally stacked.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly there is the dogs thoughts. A dog will rarely do anything for free, they want payment. Remember to reward your dog when they do what you want correctly. This can be with food, toys, fuss or verbal praise. It\u2019s important you let your do know when they do something correct, they will then repeat the behaviour to get the reward again.<\/p>\n<p>What treats or toys do you use to reward your dog?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing in life comes for free I saw this picture the other day and just had to share with you all. It is so true on two aspects and worth remembering at all times when training and handling your dog. \u00a0 Firstly there\u2019s the judge asking for a free stack (or stand as we would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,54,122,134,149,153,155,192,213,247,364,387,397,422,457,496],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bait","tag-baiting","tag-crufts","tag-dog","tag-dog-show","tag-dog-showing","tag-dog-training","tag-free-stand-free-stack","tag-handling","tag-judges","tag-ringcraft","tag-show-dog","tag-show-ring","tag-standing","tag-training","tag-winning-paws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}