my 5 month mal refuses to go on a role staircase. my trainer tells me to simly pull him on the staircase, like this he will find out that pulling away is not solving his problem. 2nd opinion pls...i tried motivational but he wont go for it.
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I'm not a Pro trainer, but pushing a pup up the stairs at that age is something I wouldn't do. all three of my dogs were bribed up the stairs at about 5 or 6 months of age. if you freak out a puppy going up the stairs what do think the pupper is going to do on the rest of the agility requirements? at that age keep it fun keep it light
I don't know what a "role staircase" is, but telling you to drag a mal up stairs is some really dumb advice. You can create a permanent aversion to stairs. Mals are NOT GSDs and don't have the same temp or personality. Leave it alone and one day he will go up on his own.
Shape the behavior, Nadir. Sit a few steps up and call your dog, look for rewardable responses, take note of the median response, reward everything above the median, keep raising the criteria, and in no time your malinois!!?? (are you sure...SURE...it's a malinois?) will be racing up and down the stairs to get more reward.
Read about behavior shaping, Nadir. It's pretty useful stuff.
what im actually talking about is an escalator(im from belgium so sorry for the bad translation). he has no problem at all with normal open stairs or any of that kind. its just when he puts his paw up the first escalator step it starts moving and he doenst wanna get up anymore.
Go up without him and just leave him there.
Be very careful that his leash does not tangle into stairs.
I am with your trainer on that one, but that might be seen as old school or red neck by some people. Problem here is that you can't stop the stairs and go one step at a time and you can't take your dog off them. So it is cold turkey all the way.
That way you can reward him when it is all over and thus finish on positive note. Once he is over stairs it is no big deal. If you don't make it big deal.
For something other, like static stairs i'd go with what Jeff and Andres adviced you. (actually i'd get another dog if it would not climb normal stairs <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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Oh ok, then in that case. hit the emergency stop button and walk <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> come to think about it, start with a stopped one and go from there. just my opinion, I'm just a pet owner
That's funny...I was thinking "spiral" staircase, with no backing from step to step.
For electrics, do as Ivan says...pick your dog up, get on the stairs, put him down, pull him off at the end, give him a treat...and then do like the shampoo instructions...
lather, rinse, REPEAT...as often as necessary...
Hey Ivan...I hear Pulis don't do so well with electric stairs... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Yea. Puli <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> my God i have seen one of those things walk right into a traffic sign <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Now when mal does the same thing there _must_ be some intention there right? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Something that we just "don't get", but that puli act was like Buster Keaton.
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Something that we just "don't get", but that puli act was like Buster Keaton.
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