Place Board Training
Pictorial
The following thumbnail photo
gallery represents a few drills and marking set-ups where place boards
and/or the "place" command are
used. They move from the early OB and drill training of Kooly on to
more advanced training in
preparation for his running AKC Senior Hunter tests. The transition to larger
set-ups is done incrementally
and the dogs pick it up quickly. Dogs thrive on mental pictures.
Picture ten is a set-up that Taffey did (some
time ago) in preparation for
Master Hunter and Finished
level hunt tests. There
are several pictures with Daisy,
playing some puppy games...............remote sit,
"here" and front finish sit
when she was introduced to the place board. Other pictures show all three
Taffey, Kooly and Daisy training together using place boards.
Place boards are easy to
introduce early on in training and may be used to enhance many different
aspects of a training program.
One area which is quite useful is casting to the board on the pitcher's
mound when doing wagon wheel
drills. They are especially valuable when training alone.
note: In some of the pictures there is no place board........a transition to a
mental concept is the
final result.
(left click on a thumbnail for larger pictures)
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Kooly - 6 months (1) |
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Kooly - 6 months (2) |
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Kooly - 6 months (3) |
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Kooly - 7 months (4) |
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Kooly - 18 months (5) |
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Kooly - 18 months (6) |
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Kooly - 19 months (7) |
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Kooly - 19 months (8) |
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Kooly - 19 months (9) |
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Taffey - four years old (10) |
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Daisy - remote sit, "here", front finish sit (11) |
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Daisy - 8 months Steady Drill (12)
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Three Steady Dogs (13) |
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Who Is Next? (14) |
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Daisy - 12 months Remote Line Singles (15) |
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Daisy - 19 months Remote Line ATV Singles (16)
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Place Boards - Top View (17)
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Place Boards - Bottom View (18)
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"No Watch" Place (19)
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(1) remote sit drill
(2) remote sit/here drill
(3) singles with wingers, place board
sit beside bucket HRC style and helps with delivery foot work
(4) force to pile from place board
using nine Kwick bumpers
(5) "down the shore" marking drill with
walking "poorman" singles, remote line three marks with ducks
(6)
ABC water marking drill with walking "poorman" singles, remote line and five
marks
(7) check
down marking drill with walking "poorman" singles, remote line and five marks
(8) marking drill with walking "poorman"
singles, remote line five stickmen and three marks
(longest 300 yards)
(9) W - marking drill ("place"
beside a white coat over a bucket on a blind pole) - dog cast back to line
after delivery in the field
(10)
four marks thrown with a
remote line ("place" beside a stickman on a levee), walking "poorman"
singles (white = marks - 159, 153, 163, 173
yards), followed by running six cold blinds mostly "up the
slots" from the line (red = cold blinds - 178,
177, 166, 159, 184, 179 yards) - complex training session
(11) Daisy at four months working on remote sit, "here", front finish sit
game (two
minutes or less)
(12) steadying drill for Daisy & maintenance for Kooly & Taffey
note: the tie down on Daisy, it must be
short enough to prevent the dog from
getting off the place board (other wise you might have a
breaking dog dragging the board)
(13) steadying drill with two place boards (one remote) and an introduction to a
dog hide
(14) water steadying and honoring drill with the pup on a place board
(15)
Daisy ran these
remote line
singles
(163, 196, 155, 123, 90 yards)
when she was 12 months old
(16
three remote line ATV, stickmen field singles with a
long up-the-slot mark ran last (184, 249, & 394 yards)
Daisy ran them right, left, middle and casting
back to the remote line place board after each retrieve
(17) - (18) two place boards (top & bottom views) the round place board is 23"
in diameter, cut our of 5/8"
plywood with "risers" cut to shape out of 5/8"
plywood: the rectangular place board is a section of an
end shelf support frame sold at Menards (3 feet
by 27" out of 2X2's) and covered with 1/4" plywood,
each place board has indoor/outdoor carpeting
glued on
(19) after staking dogs out during drills for awhile, the "place" command will
allow me to place my dogs
anywhere without staking (and they will stay there) while
another dog works on a drill, this picture
was used to jokingly present the idea that my dogs,
also, have a command called the "No Watch", that
way Daisy and Kooly are ordered to not pre-learn the
up-coming tune-up drill lines being run by Taffey 
