Now you may have seen us in a previous video talk about using the restraint
recall whether you're teaching a puppy to respond to their name or you're
building value for your dogs come command.
So what you're about to see today is that exact exercise turned into a
competition.
We've got our instructors here and we're going to put them head to head to find
out today who's got the fastest dog. I'm Ken Steepe.
Welcome back to McCann Dogs.
This episode is brought to you by Eukanuba.
Your dog's recall is possibly the single most important skill they're going to
learn. It can actually save their life.
But the key to a great recall is motivation. Teaching your dog,
that every time they hear that recall,
word something fun and exciting and motivating is going to happen is what's
going to get them to turn off of those tough distractions.
When one of our instructors went to a local kennel club, sprint, dog race,
she told us about how much fun it was.
And we thought what a great opportunity for us to take this training skill,
this training exercise,
and package it in a way that you can actually do it as well and turn it into a
competition. So today we've grabbed some high-speed camera equipment.
We thought our field marked out,
let's head out and find out how this competition is going to work.
Each of our competitors will start here in a 15 foot start box,
they'll hand their dog off to someone who's going to hold them.
They'll get their dog focused on the toy. And then they lead out.
Down here, 25 meters.
We're going to have timing blocks set up so we can know the exact time that the
dog crosses the line.
Now we're actually going to judge this event based on kilometers per hour,
not just the time. So that's the numbers you're going to see here on screen.
Now in the round,
Robin three runs the best average speed over the three runs,
top three dogs, the finals, the finals,
two runs top average speed. Over those two runs.
You can see both dogs and handlers are having a blast during this competition,
but this isn't just about running fast.
This is about teaching a and these are the foundation steps for that.
And I'm going to give you three tips you can do with your dog at home to have
this kind of response with your recall. Number one,
a safe and secure place where there's very few distractions where your dog can
focus on you and you alone. Number two, pick your motivator,
whether it's a toy or food or a tennis ball, or just your voice,
you need to find something that drives your dogs crazy.
It gets them focused on you. Number three, start close,
starting close, allows your dog to stay more focused.
These dogs are running quite a distance as you can see,
but for your young puppy,
it's important that you train the end behavior first and add distance gradually
as the dogs can stay more focused on you. So start close.
Pick that motivator, have fun with it.
Now let's get back to the action and see how the dogs are doing now.
Qualifiers have completed. We've tabulated the scores.
Now it's time for you to find out who's going to be competing in our main event
today,
which dogs get to wear the coveted pink collar and compete in our main event,
let's start things off with the small dogs.
Hi, I'm instructor Kim. This is my five month old Border Collie named Drift.
This is our first time running in the sprint races and we are super excited to
be out there having fun.
And my priority today is just to make sure my little boys stay safe and learn to
have a very fun, reliable recall. Hi, I'm instructor Lauren,
and this is my two year old Papillon on Biggie Smalls.
We're excited to be in the finals today and he'll pretty much do anything for
tennis ball. So we're really hoping this will help kick in the afterburners
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naudible]. Hi, my name is Julie.
I've been an instructor here at McCanns for about six to seven years now,
and this was my dog Banjo.
He came into our home about a year and a half ago now.
He has a little bit of an interesting story.
He was born in Mexico and lived the first few months of his life
in a shelter down.
He then came up to Canada and lived with a foster family for
several months before my husband and I adopted him.
Banjo has gone through the obedience program here at
McCann's. He excelled.
One of the greatest things,uwith him was
his recalls because I'd call him and he would come so fast.
So incredibly fast that he can really. Hi.
My name is Deborah McCann and I'm a partner with my husband,
Marty and McCann professional dog trainers,
dog training school that we run here in Flamborough Ontario.
This here is my little dog Purple.
She's A Border Collie is seven years old and she's my best
pal. And we do lots of stuff together.
She came to me a little unusually.
I never planned on having a puppy.
We bred a litter to find a puppy for my husband and something happened.
Some connection happened along the way by about four weeks.
She decided she belonged to me and loved the sound of my
voice and kept her eye on me all the time.
So when we were trying to decide at six weeks who was going to get what puppy to
go home in a couple of weeks to their new home I
realized I could just never give her up.
And so I had to keep her and she's been my best pal since
since that time.
And we're really looking forward to this competition that we're running here
today,
but there is one thing she has her four year old daughter Bee-Line who will be
competing against her in the same division.
And I think she's going to be hard pressed to to compete with her.
It's very much like her mother Bee-Line is,
and we're just going to give it our best shot and see how she does.
I am Kayl McCann and I happen to have two dogs in the finals.
This is toy poodle Hippy Shake.
She's about seven years old and this is my young Border Collie Bee-Line.
Who's four. Now I'm normally pretty competitive in the dog sport of agility,
and I've never tried sprint dog racing before.
So I'm really excited to see how the dogs fair in the finals.
Hey guys, I'm Steve. And this is my young border calling named Final.
He is a year and a half old, and we've been doing a lot of training,
a little obedience and a little bit of agility stuff,
but this is his first big competition he's been running fast and he's been
enjoying these recall games that we play.
So fingers crossed that we do well in the finals.
Hi, I'm Robbie Stevenson and this is my Border Collie, So.
She is 15 months old and she's just starting to get into dog sports and
having lots and lots of fun.
I've taught classes at McCann's for 14 years and then unfortunately had to move
away. So I had to give up my teaching job but I'm thrilled to be back now.
I'm back working online and I'm loving teaching and I'm getting all sorts of
advice online. And we're really looking forward to this afternoon's competition.
So it's, I'm excited and I'm, I'm hoping she'll give me everything she's got,
which is usually 110%.
Hi, I'm instructor, Rob. This is my border Collie. Ketchup he's four years old.
We practice our recalls every single day,
and I'm really interested in seeing how quick he can get through this course.
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Well, three supercomputers tabulated,
all the results that we just got from our round robin, and our finals.
And I gotta give you the results right now.
Now in our small dog category with an average combined speed of
31.75 kilometers an hour,
the happy Pappy with the ears for days it's biggie bigs and Lauren.
Yeah, almost 32 kilometers an hour.
It's such a cool event to actually like see it in numbers. I mean,
he's pretty quick running with my dogs, but to be motivated on his own,
just for a tennis ball and to have it clocked is actually pretty cool.
We love putting these numbers to them.
We love seeing how fast her dogs run and let's check in with our medium dog
results.
So the results are in for our medium dog category and with an average speed of
39.57 seven kilometers an hour Kayl McCann and
Bee-Line.
Yeah. So fast. I am so surprised at how fast she ran.
We are used to doing agility where you go, you know,
back and forth and through obstacles, not really in a straight line.
So it was really cool to see just how fast she could go.
Well, congratulations to you and Bee.
Now let's pop outside and track down our fastest dog of the day from the large
category and the large dog category with an average speed over to final
runs of 39.65 kilometers an hour,
Rob and Ketchup, Rob come on in here, excellent job. Rob,
how do you feel about Ketch being the fastest large dog in the group over those
five runs overall? How do you feel he did well?
It was a real team effort there we dug deep and a consistent runs all day long.
do you have anybody to thank before we move on and send you off to your next d
isc event. Catch up here. He's ran fast today. Boy.
Good job.
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family member on that note. I'm Ken happy training.