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Building value for food. I don’t really have a problem with food being valued on my person over toys, but I do have an issue with her finding the manners minder valuable! I know, it’s a quite a shocker for me also!!! A Sheltie that values toys over the food robot lol!!!
So I came up with this game to hopefully make the food robot a little more magnetic to her! Her most favorite game is a chuck it and a tennis ball so hoping this will make it a little more valuable! Nit pick awsy and let me know what I could do better :)! Hopefully I did not deviate to much from the intention of the two previous lessons lol! Sometimes my perceived good ideas aren’t ideal 😂!
HaHa, I need to join team Fake Chill!!! The struggle is real!!!
I used the target mat for her installations shaping game. This is her first time outside with it and with me standing. I wondered about the reinforcement word that I chose to use. I am looking for just a head interaction, not necessarily a nose touch and wanting sustained interaction. It will be used for teeter training. I used get it as a reset.
Yes!!!Slow down is a for real struggle for me😂!!! Maybe even harder for me than my baby😜. She’s a great dog for me! She’s teaching me so much!
Placed reinforcement
Sometime between the first day of this and the second, I broke her circle wrap lol. She may have been conflicted because I had her super tasty treats salmon treats the second time on me or it may have been the holding her by the collar. It may have been just her too! She does value the chasing me over the placed reward. Interested to see what you think. I left with a few more reps than I would have normally because of this. The second day I’m using using the black sheepskin tug. She really was a rock star with the tunnel and the reward. She had a few fails, but mostly she was so great in ignoring that tug. Great impulse control little girl!!!
In general, I do find that she has more focus/value on chasing me than the placed reward. This even comes about with the treat n train also. Hoping to get a little more focus on the reward sometimes. For example, I have had issues with the max pup 2 serpentine training because she just blows by the reward and then gets frustrated. My motion has been a very distracting factor for her in our training, even if my motion is just a few steps LOL!
I’m back!! After a trip a way and all the holiday fun we were both excited to get back to training this a.m. Promise also went into heat last Monday, so it’s been a fun filled week lol!
This session was soooo informational for me!!!! I was so impressed with her! She was pushing it on the stay before this class and it was an issue that was causing a lot of frustration for both of us! She could not do the tunnel with a toy with the same distance, but I was soooo impressed with her and food. I got much farther than I would have ever thought. You gave me some great tools and insight with this exercise!!!
Alright, this is very timely lol! I went out to film your other class and Promise was completely overaroused and I was unsuccessful in getting her out of that state. I did the cookie reset, but she would then launch right back into her previous behavior. She was trying to snatch the toy and jumping up and being a total hellion😂! She was not satisfied she did not earn the toy! Her fuse was a very short one today.
What do you suggest in these situations?I’m not positive I did this correctly! Take away the other wing and I get all kinds of confused. She did great! Hopefully I trained the correct thing lol!!!
I will probably skip the threadles for now with her!I’ve enjoyed the class and have been surprised at all she can do! she wowed me 🙂
>>When you did the ‘all done’ and walked away, she grabbed your pants – that might be a frustration behavior because ‘all done’ might actually be a negative punisher (withdrawal of access to reinforcement). So even if you are walking off to give her a cookie, you are withdrawing access to positive reinforcement in the form of the action games, agility, etc. I personally don’t have a specific ‘all done’ cue for that very reason 🙂 so you can play your way off rather than indicate to her that the party is over. Then after playing your way off, you can go to treats, maybe toss some in the grass so she can sniff around to reduce her heart rate and begin to relax.
Good point. This is a new thing I was trying on suggestion of an owner of a relative from her line. I have not done this previously with my dogs. They just understood when we were done. I think tossing the kibble will be a nice way to calm down and destress.
No, she does not like for her fun to end! She probably doesn’t care for the word lol!>>Tugging then drop the toy to the cookie combo: what types of treats did you use here? She did a great job going back and forth between tugging and food! I think this went really well and she appeared to actually be *patient* in the transitions – didn’t grab the toy until cued, ate the cookie, got back on the toy – NICE!
This was just kibble, but I find that kibble is not as effective bringing her out of temper tantrums lol. I will keep practicing with her hierarchy of higher value treats till I can use all the things.
This is a great game! Unknowingly, I did this with Potter my novice A dog, and it I had beautiful results with him. I have a specific trial bag with the treats and it is always laid at a spot outside the ring with the dog at my side. And I say let’s go afterwards!!! I will have an easy time with this one lol!! I plan to do the same with Promise.
My first training session was great! We had a moment where she would not leave the reward and was throwing a fit and then a huge break through. I went to go shut my camera off afterwards and it was not recording!! I hate that lol! This was our second session. Some time in the first session when she was barking at the chair, she started included the barking. This game was not a concept she understood at first! Must not leave reward lol! Then she got it. Unfortunately I captured none of that LOL! This is a good game for her for sure!!!
I thought she did great!
Hopefully I did this correctly! When I remove the other wing and bar somehow I manage to get so confused on which direction I’m supposed to go. The first video I made was awesome backs but I realized I was doing a front with it😂😂. Oops. Hopefully I’m correct in my motion here.
I think it’s awesome advice!!! So proud of my smart baby girl!!! Also proud of me!!! Rears are my weakest link😂😂!!! Hurray!!! And yes she makes me think I have to go sooo fast lol! Will practice again with all the suggestions 😊.
No worries about me layering too much! I’m a layering chicken😂.
We can’t wait to start your reinforcement class either🤞😊!!!I haven’t taught promise the rear on the jump yet! Hopefully I didn’t muck all this up lol! I use switch for my rear cross word. I used cross here, but I rewatched again and saw you use directional. Are they your soft turn directionals? I’m trying to use both arms in teaching this.
Sequence. https://youtu.be/OSk37OX0Kqw
Wondering if I’m a tad early with my cross command verbal and hands. Also wondering if I’m just doing rears and don’t realize it🙈.Great suggestions Tracy!!! Will try to be faster with the reset cookies and to mix it up more!!! I think I need to make my self a cheat sheet to remember what to do😂. Joking but actually serious lol! I get stuck like a record a lot😂😂!
Makes perfect sense on rewarding first obstacle!!
Obstructed obstacles!!!
Right was great! Left had issues!! No worries, my Tasmanian devil is strongly opinionated and let me know with barking and biting me I had gone way too fast😂😂😈!!! I let this session go on to long also!! I get way too greedy. It’s so hard to stop when we are both having so much fun!Also forgot to add. My pinkie finger got stuck in a tug toy leash yesterday and is severely bruised and swollen from promise tugging in it while wrapped around my finger. My throws are Terrible because of it lol!!!
Question on throwing reward sooner. Do you mean after first obstacle, after line of obstacles or both lol? Yes, I need three hands and a jet pack would also need nice😂.
I always say Potter is the best instructor a girl could have! What an awesome novice A boy! All great suggestions, I will try with him! I do run him in premier still and he is iffy on some threadles so this will be a great help!!!
Breeze walked today with his foot on the ground!!! A true Miracle. Just Sunday he was incontinent and unable to move his leg at all!! I appreciate all the good thoughts.
Promise will be 10 months on the second of Nov.
She really got this exercises!! I struggled sometimes with getting all my words out, but I straighten it out the next time. Interesting enough, I made this exercise harder than it should have been on the check check turns 🙈🙈. I left the straight tunnel off on the side from yesterday, beyond camera view, so when she was going wide and missing the jump this was probably it! She did amazing with my super challenge 😂😂🙈. Of course I realized all that after I went to turn off the camera🙈.
Her stay is non existent right now without the board! Working hard on that! She had a great stay and I did reward it a lot, but going through teenage stuff probably lol!!! She’s doing great with board will be progressing soon to off board.
