New Disc Dog and Dog Training Classes Coming Soon!!!
Pawsitive Vybe announces new focus, skills based online disc dog and dog training classes. In addition to personal lessons, a deep disc dog foundation…
Month: March 2018
On Engagement – Back Chaining and an Existential Experience
Allow An Existential Experience Everything starts with having a sense of existence within your situation. Where am I? What is this place? A dog should…
On Engagement in Dog Sports and Dog Training
Engagement™ is a huge buzzword these days in the dog training world. I think it’s taken over Rear End Awareness™” and Core Strength™. We’ve been…
We pioneered and publicized most of the +R engagement tools being used out there:
Shift your thinking to Reinforcement; make Engagement more likely to happen in the future. This changes the game entirely. Throwing rewards around willy nilly and paying "shitty work" with strategic gusto are often necessary to create or cultivate a desire for engagement.
If you start with Dismissal, you’ve flipped the script. The dog starts to try to figure out how to shape the handler because, you know we’re out here and nothing is happening and whatnot…A question develops,”What are we doing out here?”The dog looks in at the handler, and the answer,”YES! BITE!”Maybe the dog takes the cookie, maybe not, but the dog knows that looking at the handler made something happen. Engagement happened and was reinforced. It will happen again.Dismiss and Repeat – Go Do Dog Stuff... and let it happen again.