Marker training done properly will work to teach a dog any behavior.
However, you can't just jump straight into marker training and expect to teach a complex behavior like barrier awareness. You'll have to teach a few simpler things so that you and the dog have developed a language to communicate with.
THEN you can teach barrier awareness. Or down/stay, depending on the type of gate and when exactly its getting opened.
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Aaron, how do you teach barrier awareness assuming the dog already has been taught the foundations of marker training?
We haven't done anything other than wait for me at the door and this would be something very useful to teach now. There will be baby gates and x-pens around the house pretty soon and I don't want my dogs to have to figure it out on their own.
I am going to start marker training two Great Pyrenees. They have not been trained with markers yet. I have done some basic perimeter training through corrective measures. They have a basic understand of the idea.
Basically though, it the gate gets left open, I don't want the dogs bolting.
BTW, this is my first post and I am trying to figure out how to subscribe to this thread so I will get email notifications when I receive replies.
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When I open a door to the outside, any door, I ask for the following behavior string.
1) Sit
2) Open the door maintaining the sit.
3) Wait for the signal to walk through the door.
4) Sit outside the door.
5) Hold that sit while I shut the door.
I then start adding modifiers like me going through the door without them (I expect that sit held) . A wide open door, and the final challenge the stranger at the door. I do correct dogs for charging through the door after this along with the dog that tries to sneak through the door on my ankles, I follow this up with asking for the sit so we end this on a positive note.
Sorry for the delayed response. For some reason I am not being notified when people post. It might be a grab from my SPAM filter so I will have to check.
In any case, that article was great and while I haven't deeply read it yet...as I skimmed over it...it looks like it's in the department of what I am looking for.
Since I wrote my original post I have come to realize that my first perimeter I need to set up is inside my house, as in "Don't come inside." Every time a door gets left open I have two Great Pyrenees puppies wandering through my house. I don't want this happening. I should mention that I have several small children that will occasionally leave the door open and that is most often when the dogs come in.
Can the same ideas in the article be applied to this situation? Do you see any necessary modifications? I am very new to marker training. I have always used force correction to train my dogs and I am not a professional trainer, just to state the obvious.
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