DO NOT OIL SEALED BEARINGS! This may cause the seal to fail and damage the bearings. While sealed bearings will not last forever, they will last a long, long time before they have to be replaced. For most normal handspinners you will never need to replace a sealed bearing in your wheel.
When I spoke of a separate podcast about Controlled Unleashed (CU), I meant a separate episode that rather than be about the Training Levels, will be about CU. Heavens, one podcast is enough for me!
You can contact me at clickspin at gmail dot com or as Ellenspn on Ravelry as well as leaving a comment on either iTunes or here on the blog.
Training Levels The main link to the information about the Training Levels.
Yahoo Email Group For The Training Levels An email based group where you can email back and forth with other people also working on the Training Levels with their dogs.
Level 1 Here are the behaviors and expectations for level 1.
Patches, 1990-2007, the dog who started it all with me. Here she is pictured at 13 years old enjoying a cool morning. She was a red merle Australian Shepherd.
Clicker Training Primer An introduction to clicker training from the ClickerSolutions Yahoo Group.
Overcoming Fear Of The Clicker Very important if you have a sound sensitive dog. Believe me, it’s not fun to watch the dog run away the first time you click.
Training Levels-Sit Here is the link to explain how to lure a sit for the level 1 and the requirements to “pass” the level 1 sit. There is also the information about training the sit through all the levels. Don’t let the higher levels intimidate you, right now we are just concerned about getting your dog and you comfortable with using the clicker to train.