Slacker Training with Epic – Duration at a Distance
Here’s Epic working on a Pedestal while Ron whips up some Turkey Dogs à la Pawsitive Vybe. This is what I like to call Slacker…
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A Pedestal is a raised Spot or platform for localizing and controlling a dog’s position; articles on Pedestal training by Ron Watson of Pawsitive Vybe.
Pedestal Circuit for Confidence, Rear End Awareness
This is what we call a pedestal circuit here at Pawsitive Vybe and we use it for rear end awareness. In the video, Ernie &…
Working Multiple Dogs | Principles for the Distraction Dog
The Distraction Dog is not very important to this exercise. This dog is simply used as a distraction for the Working Dog’s duration behavior. The…
Spot Training – Generalizing Handler Position and Approach
In this Video, Apryl Lea and Pan work on a Pedestal, or raised spot. The intent of the session is to Manufacture the Approach and Generalize the Handl…
Introduction to the Pedestal Behavior
We like to use Pedestals here at PVybe HQ because it is a very Black and White behavior. The dog is either on it, or not on it, plain and simple. A Sp…
Root Concepts of the Spot Behavior
Behaviors can be broken down into many root concepts. Spot training offers us several active root concepts that we can teach our dogs that will come i…
2 Keys to Teaching a Dog to Stay
Many clicker trainers have problems with duration because they are primarily focused on marking and reinforcing action. After the action part of the d…