
Manufacturing the Approach
The concepts of On and Off can be taught quite quickly by marking the off and tossing a cookie. The dog leaves the Spot to go grab the cookie and then immediately returns to earn more cookies for doing the Spot again.
The concepts of On and Off can be taught quite quickly by marking the off and tossing a cookie. The dog leaves the Spot to go grab the cookie and then immediately returns to earn more cookies for doing the Spot again.
Oppositional Feeding is a technique that I have been using for some time now to slow my dogs down a bit and get them to settle in and work away from me but I could not figure out how it fit within our Flatwork Foundation.
Paying the Release of a duration behavior is important as duration is defined by the Release. Without the Release, duration can’t happen. It’s also important to have the dog seek out the handler for reinforcement after the duration behavior has been performed.
The way the Pawsitive Vybe Ribbon is constructed, our dogs are likely to mistake the PVR for a simple Go Around. If we look at the…
Reward placement is key in teaching a dog the Spot behavior. The reward must be delivered so that the dog can maintain position on the spot. Reward placement can be used to your advantage though…
A written explanation of a sample Foundational Positioning. Quick sessions, super successful… Less is more.
Change your dog’s understanding of doorways from ‘staging area’ to ‘destination’. This little reframe save you and your dog a lot of grief at the door.
Here’s Apryl & Kiva working on a zig zag for big leaping. Notice the intent that Apryl throws with…
Reward Placement is a key aspect of Dog Training. The Dog goes where rewards happen.
Reward placement and dog frisbee: The dog will go where the reward happens, plain and simple.
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
One of the goals as a professional dog trainer is to have a simple, accessible philosophy that can be communicated easily and applied fairly simply
When asking the dog off of the spot, the Release, a tossed cookie facilitates action. Tossing the cookie forces the dog to leave the Spot and sets up another approach.
The concepts of On and Off can be taught quite quickly by marking the off and tossing a cookie. The dog leaves the Spot to go grab the cookie and then immediately returns to earn more cookies for doing the Spot again.
The dog can be sent away from the handler, towards the handler, to the left or to the right with tossed cookies. The dog puts his face where the cookie happens.
Once value has been added to the Spot and the approach is happening readily from all angles dismiss the dog,"Go do dog stuff," then freeshape and capture the Spot behavior. The dog gets all excited about the spot and working in general and then he is dismissed, "Go do dog stuff..." We then ignore him until he hits the spot.
Observe the dog and when he hits the spot, mark and reward for position.
It may be necessary to reduce the criteria back down to a foot target or on the spot for a few repetitions, as the entire Spot behavior might be a bit too much to ask for initially on dismissal, but once the dog learns that the Spot behavior can manipulate an unavailable handler into play, this behavior is pretty much a done deal.
A few reps of reinforcing the threshold, or foot target with that reward for position concept in mind and then just wait for the offered Sit or Down.
It is important the handler has a clear understanding of what behavior is going to earn a cookie on each repetition and that the handler observes proper cookie process rules. The target behavior makes the cookie process happen... no flinching or preparing while the dog is still en route to the correct behavior or upping the ante is going to be tough.
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