I found out the other day that my ME food dvd has a big scratch on it
There are quite a few thing that I would like to watch again on there so I will have to order a new one. Until then I have a question...
When using food to redirect focus off of environmental stimulation, do you use a negative marker?
For example, on our walk last night my dogs focus shifted to a guy who suddenly came through a door. She stalled to check him out, and didn't react in a negative way but paid more attention than I would consider normal and seemed a little uncomfortable. Her hackles bumped up just slightly and she didn't want to turn away from him.
So for than would I say "nope" and then mark and reward eye contact?
I would ask for the "look" first and then a light "nope" if she didn't comply. I'd TRY to do this before her focus got to the point of paying more attention than is normal... Ideally, the guy walks out unexectedly, YOU say LOOK! YES! reward, so that eventually she begins to associate someone walking outside unexpectedly with her getting a yummy treat.
You might consider taking some VERY high value treats when you are out walking this gal so she is even more likely to listen / comply.
Falcon's favorites are string cheese and raw beef cubes (a bit messy, so sometimes I BARELY cook them to make them easier to handle).
Right now she is getting almost all of her food in training.
I started to mix her kibble with a trail mix of favorites and keep the daily ration in the bait bag. This week I prepared crumbled bacon, cubed sharp cheddar and cooked chicken breast, all mixed together.
When you say "look" do you mean "look at me" or the "look at that" game from control unleashed?
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I am clicking Jethro for looking and not barking or lunging. When he turns back I give him the treat. I've found its almost hopeless to try to get him to ignore the environment and focus on me on command. When I give him permission to check out the environment, in fact, rewarding him for looking, then he comes back to me and has been offering me some amazing eye contact in all sorts of situations.
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Quote: barbara schuler
We use "look" to mean make eye contact with me.
Ditto.
Lauren, it might help if you try to think first in almost all situations of how you can ask for a "do this" action rather than a "don't do this" non-action.
It's not 100%, but it's amazing how many times it does apply. It almost always applies in daily ongoing stuff. JMO!
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" ...would I say "nope" and then mark and reward eye contact?" So for this you would ask for the eye contact and m/r that command compliance.
And as Barbara says, sooner is better.
With my used-to-be-dog-reactive adopted guy, I was always keeping an eye up ahead and around the sidewalk near "his" fence so that I was far better prepared to get his attention and totally water down any reaction he would have had than he was to prepare his stink-eye and his wild bark-fest.
I am clicking Jethro for looking and not barking or lunging. When he turns back I give him the treat. I've found its almost hopeless to try to get him to ignore the environment and focus on me on command. When I give him permission to check out the environment, in fact, rewarding him for looking, then he comes back to me and has been offering me some amazing eye contact in all sorts of situations.
Ditto. Part of the MinPin standard is that they be highly curious (ie distracted!) by their surroundings - hopeless
My girl is learning to simply point her face at me when I say "watch me" while her eyes roll towards whatever is out there - so more and more I am just rewarding for quiet and calm looking at the distraction, like Jenny.
Connie. Thanks for the help. I just wasn't sure because on the food dvd I don't remember Michael Ellis giving any sort of command in that portion of the video. I could be totaly wrong. I need to watch it about sixty or seventy more times!
Jenny, I hear ya. I haven't really been succesful with this command at all in the past. I think its because I have no way to really bridge building distraction. The minute we walk outside it seems that there is something goong on that either concerns or excites her!
Maybe I need to take my dog and move way up in Maine.
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