DiscDog Puppy Bitework | Criteria and Bite Trigger
Disc Dog Bitework is a great way to teach the mechanics of disc play: Bite, Drop, and Give. Each of these skills is integral to the game of disc with …
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Reinforcing a Give with a Cued Drop
Epic has a pretty crappy give. A few weeks ago that crappy Give cost us more than a few points in a big worldwide contest - "Not Cool, Eppie!" and not…
Three Simple Steps to Teach a Polka Puppy a Hoop
Historical footage recovered from our cloud archive, the Polkanado puppy learning the Hoop behavior. This was her first shot at the skill and you can …
Drop Problems? Do Before Cue for Responsive Drops
It's quite hard to flow with a dog who doesn't drop on cue. This problem is greater if you treat action and interaction with the handler and disc as a…
Working Drop? Drop and Toss n Fetch Don’t Mix. Unless…
Well, I've got some bad news for ya. Toss n Fetch is not helpful for shaping & reinforcing a cued Drop. And it's probably worse than that, it's probab…
PVybe ‘n’ Chill | An In Home Training Experience
Hang out with the PVybe Pack, watch hours of dog training edutainment, get in home training plans and/or lessons tailored to you and your dog, and sup…
Fidgets | Freeshaping | Freestyle – Success!
So the first group video chat is in the books. It was bad ass!
Multiple and Juggle
Description: 3 or more discs delivered in rapid succession is a multiple. Perform 2 multiples of your choice. One featuring a Give and one with…
Multiple or Juggle Demo
Description: 3 or more discs delivered in rapid succession is a multiple. A multiple with Drops is a Multiple or Shuffle and a multiple with…
CPM
CPM means cookies per minute. It is a fun expression for rate of reinforcement, a very important dog training concept. CPM should be between 15…
Bitework
Bitework is an activity or a game that consists of biting and dropping a toy on cue. Cued Bites and cued Drops (and Gives) can…
Ballwork
Ballwork is a vault and localized collection drill that we do here at Pawsitive Vybe. A fixed and stable exercise ball is used as a…
Treat to Toy Transfer with Layla
Here are Layla and Ron working on Transferring from Treats to Toys with Set Up Moves and some Flatwork. Layla is a serious car chaser…
Teaching a Dog to Jump & Catch with Bitework
Bitework gives a very efficient framework for us to work many skills. One of the skills that we can work with Bitework is leaping for…
Four Principles of Positive Training
These are standard Positive Training principles with a little Pawsitive Vybe flavor added to them – and the mindmap is just really cool. It’s a…
Bitework with a Single Railslide Jump
Bitework gives a very efficient framework for us to work many skills. One of the skills that we can work with Bitework is leaping for…
Zen of Multiples
For Disc Dogs, performing a multiple (several discs thrown in rapid fire succession usually at a short distance and in front of the handler) can…
Fixing a Dog Who Can’t Catch – Part 2
this is the second installment in this series. Check out part 1. continued from part 1 – yes, this is the same video but you…
10 Strings to Pull to Manage Drive and Untie Behavioral Knots – Pt 2
The last two installments of this series outlined the behavioral strings and knots metaphor and examined 5 ‘strings’ of behavior and their relationship to behavioral…
10 Strings to Pull to Manage Drive and Untie Behavioral Knots – Pt 1
Yesterday’s piece was about how solving behavioral problems is kind of like untangling knots. Today I’m going to talk about the strings that make up…