Transferring from Treats to Toys
All of the drills in this weeks lessons need to be transferred from treats to toys. Here are a few concepts we can use to…
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Rewarding with Action
Tough Luck At Pawsitive Vybe, Dogs don’t earn cookies, they earn the opportunity for cookies. When the mark leads to opportunity, dog’s are conditioned to…
Rewarding with Plastic
Rewarding a dog with flying discs is an artform. If you are good at it, you can get more out of your dog in a…
Attention & Drop as Secondary Reinforcer
Attention Eye contact in the presence of a disc earns the opportunity to bite the disc. It’s brutally simple and effective for keeping dogs off…
Attention for Wait
Attention in the presence of discs creates a default wait. If eye contact is marked, the dog waits in anticipation of her cookie. If you…
Create & Leverage Game
Multiple Equal-Value Targets Use multiple targets to create a higher rate of reinforcement and to establish more control over the mechanics of the game: bite,…
Marty McFly Disc Dog Puppy Jam
Let's go Back to the Future with Apryl Lea & Marty McFly from 2017. In one of Marty's first field jams, Apryl and the young man work on staying engage…
DiscDog.Live | Puppy Shaping with Ricky Jones
I happened to catch a live stream session by Ricky Jones the other day on FB. It's a nice session with a malinois puppy featuring shaping, cookies, an…
Disc Dog Team Movement Foundation | Puppy’s 2nd Jam
This is Grasshopper's 2nd jam ever. We did an introduction to disc a few weeks ago that went pretty well. Since then we have done three team movement …
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…
Puppy’s First Disc Dog Jam | Zappa the GrassHoppa
Zappa is a 17 week old puppy who has never played disc. This is a typical introductory puppy training session for us, meaning it is anything but typic…
Flatwork Compass with Obi | A Dozen Throws and a Different Disc Dog
12 throws in 4 minutes and we have a dramatically improved trigger, a better wait, and a plan to solve a couple of other nagging problems he has shown…
Do Then Cue – Putting Behaviors Before the Cued Drop for Proofing Purposes
Cue Before Do is standard operating procedure for teaching a cued Drop with discs. Cue Before Do means that you ask for and get the Drop behavior befo…
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…
Patron’s Choice: Routine Building | Disc Management for the Dog
Sneak Peek - Patrons Only... Public Release Dec 14th | A dog that knows how to flank and pass will be able to maintain a desired working distance of…
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…
Secondary Reinforcer
A Secondary Reinforcer is a conditioned reinforcer that gets it’s value from it’s proximity to a Primary Reinforcer. The “primary reinforcers” in the game of…
Negative Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement is taking away something to increase the likelihood of the behavior happening in the future. An aversive stimulus is removed when the dog…
Drop Criteria
Teeth off is the criteria for a drop. This might seem obvious when reading or talking about it, but can be difficult to understand or…