Lucy get so excited while marker training, she won't shut up. That is good news in a way since she is now interacting with me, bad news on the marking as each mark coincides with a bark.
I was wondering if this is the area for using LESS valued rewards and she is only food motivated or scent motivated.
Or should I try to wait her out? (Her barks vibrate and echo...very nice hound contralto but hard on the ears.)
I too have a similar prob. with my blk.lab/border X. We just started back up with the marker training and she's so excited about it.
She'll offer every trick she's got and bark. When she is barking at me I turn my back and wait till she calms down, then start back up.
However, I'm teaching "look" and she's barking a lot with that, so its hard to actually capture what I want, shes giving me the eye contact I want but barking at me, which I dont. So thats what we're working on. Even if shes giving me eye contact, if she's barking I say "No", and wait till she stops, gives me the eye contact then "Yes" and treat.
Will Lucy stop barking if you turn your attention elsewhere?
Less attractive treats might work, mine is so food driven, I might try that too.-Kate
Breakthrough...of a sort. Used lower value rewards for sit and she did well. Oddly, she barks when I say sit, but signal sit, she doesn't bark. (I did mark sit while barking and I used a verbal command then...sigh).
Recall is doing better. She went from lackadaisical recall to a slamming recall today. I used high value rewards and after two practices, I get a "Lucy missile" who rams her muzzle into my hands (I cup my hands in front of my knees to give her a target, otherwise she runs between my legs and loops around).
So, I just had to remember to switch the high and low value rewards. Ed and Cindy and most of you are right when you say you don't use the same rewards and sometimes you have to change it up.
:smile: she is verbal. Maybe. Thanks for reminding me of that. Maybe she is reacting to my voice and 'talking'. I know she reacts better if I whisper; her bark is very soft or non-existent. Well, we shall just experiment and see.
Thanks Lindsay.
Once I figure it out, I think I will train her to speak and quiet.
Any suggestions on what exactly a "low value" food treat would be? Just to clarify what you all are using?
I have a dog that loves training so much, he starts hollering from inside his crate in another room if he so much as hears me tell another dog to "sit". when I am training HIM (oh! the wonder!) he gets so excited that every mark/treat is celebrated by a victory lap around the house. His "treats" are his regular kibble. He only gets higher value treats for very difficult work (weekly nail trims or working on a behavioural issue).
In fact, training him is very difficult because he gets so wound up that he doesn't listen or absorb anything.
I was thinking of starting a post on it one of these days, so thanks Jo for bringing it up.
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