![]() ![]() That way you could do some lure training without having food in your hand. You may also teach your dog a target cue which is used to have the dog move as they follow the hand. You slowly work on that until the hand looks like the final hand signal. The next step is to start holding your hand more in a position which looks like the hand signal. Do not feed the dog the lure! Next, once the dog is performing the behavior with the lure, take the lure out of your hand and hold your hand as if there were food in it. That way the dog gets used to the food coming from the other hand. First, you want to be sure to lure with one hand and feed with the other. When using a lure to train, there are a couple of tips that will make it so that the dog does not need to see a treat in your hand before performing the cue. The other mistake I see people make a lot is not fading the lure quickly enough. You can also take the treats that would have been in your pocket and set them up out of reach somewhere. That way you can ask her to do something and then easily walk over to the treat to reinforce. When possible, try to have treats in jars located all over the house. I usually work on things that require a lot of repetition since it allows a lot of practice for a lower number of calories.Ī lot of dogs focus too much on the area where the treat is located. ![]() I like using the dog’s food ration for training. Use the lowest value treat that you can get away with using. Some dogs just seem to lose their mind for higher value treats. Use lower value treats like kibble, biscuits for well-known cues, in familiar locations. We should also be sure to vary the type of treats we are using for different behaviors. ![]() This is after the dog has some saliency with the behavior. You can also work towards a variable reinforcement schedule by not always reinforcing with a treat following a cue. An example might be shake, spin, down and then treat. Some trainers suggest starting to ask the dog for multiple behaviors for one treat rather than a one cue to treat ratio. If you only teach two positions of sit and down, then the dog has a 50% chance of being rewarded for guessing. It’s one of the reasons why we teach 3 positions of sit, stand, down so that you can mix up the positions more. What tends to happen if you use the same order is the dog just chains the behaviors together and doesn’t necessarily know what you are asking for. An example would be, every time you practice your positions you say to your dog, “sit, down, stand”, in that order. One thing to be sure of is that you are not asking for the same behaviors in the same order every time. The reason is as you likely know, that the dog will not learn to distinguish the correct hand or verbal signals if they frequently get rewarded for guessing. They just know you like it when they do this or how about this? It sounds like you understand not to reinforce a behavior you did not ask for. The dog may not understand the cue signals completely. It tends to be really common in the early stages of training. The behavior you describe where the dog starts throwing behaviors at you, is pretty common. Kind of like the anticipation of a vacation can be better than the actual vacation. Side note: research has shown that the anticipation is more reinforcing than the actual treat. I can almost see the joy on your dog’s face in anticipation of training. Looking forward to any tips on training sessions/treats/weaning treats…THANK YOU!!įirst, let me say, Bravo for teaching your pup all those amazing cues! I love, love a dog that loves to train. Apparently, I’ve made some mistakes and I’m hoping to fix them! Also, she’s not excited enough for a toy to work for it. I guess I’m wondering if I should just stay away from “training sessions”? Any tips on how to have short training sessions where she’s not too obsessed with the reward to perform the command? Sometimes I think she ignores me because she knows I don’t have a treat. I’ve tried to randomly reward throughout the day with hidden treats and give life rewards and ask her to say please. I tend to ignore any trick she offers that I did not ask for. She only follows about half the commands I give because she’s so focused on the treats in my pocket. As soon as we start training, she gets so excited for treats that she randomly starts performing commands that I didn’t ask for (sits, lays down, runs to her bed and waits, lays in her crate). ![]()
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