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Question about marker cue for the driving ahead game. The idea here is to teach them the concept that they CAN drive ahead of us, especially if we give them a verbal cue that supports some object/obstacle ahead of them, not that “get it” becomes the cue to drive ahead correct? So we would just be using the cue that means grab your toy (Toy toy for me) and not our drive ahead cue (go-on-go for me)?
Does this position work for the nose target?
And holy heck she’s been on a growth spurt since Friday!
“and when it happens everyone in the world can hear her!“
Yup, I witnessed this! 😆 Pretty sure I was there when the ex pen panel blew over near her at Riverside a few weeks ago. Didn’t even touch her, but she made me think she was being crushed to death! I think John was there, not you.
Thanks for the info on sighthounds vs terriers! Everyone keeps telling me I have to be prepared for her to act like a BC, and I’m like, yeah, I don’t see it yet.
Her parents were both pretty small, mom was a 23# Whippet, and dad was a 33# BC (tiny for a male!) but even within those breeds, pretty sure small parents can have big offspring. And of course, right after I was commenting here and on my FB page about her still being smaller than my Rats, I looked at her yesterday morning and said “you grew overnight”. She’s officially taller than my smallest one and even with my middle one now so will see where she ends up. If she winds up in the middle of her parents’ ranges for weight, she will weigh pretty much the same as the terriers though (mine are 23-27 lb). Regardless, I oohed and ahhed at that stack in that video too 😉
As for markers, my “yes” is a release/end of behavior marker. I’ve done Rachel Pearson’s stimulus control stuff, and while I’m terribly inconsistent with the markers in every day life (and why I kinda dislike the idea, but see that it’s useful) I do try to be consistent with them in training sessions. I would use “good” as the marker if I wanted her to stay in position to be fed. I guess I do have a “get it” cue for a thrown cookie, but I think I mostly use it when they are already looking at me?
For the nose marker, I’ve been working on a chin target behavior with a Tupperware lid (to be able to teach a head flat on the floor trick) recently and wanted this to look different which is why I held it that way.
