Dogs don't learn a behavior unless you are consistent in your behavior in teaching it, but you probably already know that (g). Good luck and thanks for your kind words. Norman
Gee all that and to think I offered the video in order to show how I taught left turns. Since you asked my pup learned down in motion without compulsion in fact the pup had not seen any compulsion at all. I did appreciate your critique of this video however as we are all here to learn. Norman
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I didn't see any actual teaching in the video, just practice of what the dog already knows? How about a video of you stepping on his toes? Or showing how you got to the stage at which the pup is at? At the stage when the pup doesn't look pretty doing it. Those are always the most interesting ones to me.
Interesting video none the less, thanks for sharing.
To add to Mike's sugestion of doing a head turn, I do a quick head turn when my left foot lands. Then I do a half/shuffle step with a pivot to bring my right up to the left, then step off again in the 90 degree left turn with my left foot. Get this correct before you start doing an about turn.
As Mike said, mark and reward for small progress.
Do this without the dog until YOU are good at it. No sense in trying a new behaviour with the dog if your not sure about your own foot work.
hi,
this could be a different question here; but hope to get some expert opinion here. do you train the heel work using ball or foot ? what are pros & cons between these 2 approaches ?
In additonal I found that it's difficult to use foot for small dog because I need to bend down my body to present the food to him and if I drop the foot, he tends to miss it and going for the foot on the floor.
I show some of the steps for teaching pivots and left turns with Rush here but I think Sarah has already watched this.
you can see that Rush attempts to back up a couple times with leash pressure, because as Mike S. recommended I taught back up first. the dog needs to learn to get his body back and out of your way. Also, if you teach the dog where to hold his head in relation to your body, then the left turns come pretty easily.
To answer Stanley, I use both food and ball but in the beginning teaching phase I use food. It's much easier to give multiple rewards and keep the dog interested without getting too high in drive to think clearly. Once the dog has a good handle on the task then I start bringing the drive up with the toys but continue to use food throughout the dog's training career.
I didn't see any actual teaching in the video, just practice of what the dog already knows? How about a video of you stepping on his toes? Or showing how you got to the stage at which the pup is at? At the stage when the pup doesn't look pretty doing it. Those are always the most interesting ones to me.
Interesting video none the less, thanks for sharing.
Mike since this was a training video for my use I didn't see the need to video said technique, because I already knew it (g). That said someone as proficient in analyzing a training video as you are can see the behavior of the dog when I began turning left. That is what I was trying to show, the result of this technique. Besides I sort of thought that most knew how to step on a dogs toes with their right foot when making a left turn. The dog seemed happy and unaffected by my previously stepping on his toes and IMO for a young pup just taught by this technique in a good position after a left turn and ready for more. Regards Norman
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