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Nothing better than a calm and straight walk up! In the continuation of the 50ft pen series Jeff Christiansen starts his dog walking up into the stock. Watch Jeff in Part 9 explain:

  • Why you should always start with the previous lesson,
  • Why walk ups need to be straight,
  • The reason at first we need to stand by the stock,
  • Why there are three options after the walk up,
  • The importance of downing the dog as it starts to come off the line,
  • How to keep a dog from reading the handler's body language to initiate the walk up,
  • How you say the command, affects how the dog does it,
  • The need to give the dog room and a place to go for the walk ups,
  • Why not to walk a dog up too far at first,
  • and much more!

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Jeff Christiansen

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Jeff Christiansen was raised on a ranch in Kansas where cattle, horses and dogs became an important part of daily life. Spending over 20 years as a professional cutting horse trainer that specialized in the development of two year olds allowed him to also use dogs to help with the day to day operation.

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