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I wouldn't introduce the IB concept on this, though, just as I wouldn't make a complex behavior my first marker-training command.
I'd want to the dog to be familiar with the IB, and I'd want me to be practiced at it. So I'd probably introduce using an IB to add duration to a very simple and neutral position command.
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Thinking back, one of mine never cared. No marker work needed.
The other two were uneasy about having their tails lifted. But both were much easier to marker-train this than other "procedures." And as mentioned, neither needed an IB.
But sounds like the dog in the OP might.
"Finger in eye" ...... now there's one that took a while. lol
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I wouldn't introduce the IB concept on this, though, just as I wouldn't make a complex behavior my first marker-training command.
I'd want to the dog to be familiar with the IB, and I'd want me to be practiced at it. So I'd probably introduce using an IB to add duration to a very simple and neutral position command.
JMO!
Absolutely.
If you're not familiar with the IB concept, your marker training still has a ways to go. Do you have the marker video, or "Power of Training Your Dog With Food"?
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Oh, yeah ..... and this isn't something that you start in the tub.
You'd start it casually at some un-fraught moment, for a second, and have a good response in place before taking it on the road (into the bathing area).
I'd really like to see someone marker train a dog to raise its tail for a bath. Now that would be something! LOl.
I didn't know I was using markers at the time but when I gave my Kerrys a bath I would hold them after the rinse and say "Shake" then let them go. Then I would give a "good dog" and give a treat.
When people would ask what tricks they could do. I would simply say they can shake. I loved the looks on their faces when they would reach down for a paw and say "shake".
No doubt you could "capture" the behavior of raising their tail then mark and reward it. Of course I don't recall any of the terriers I had that ever dropped their tail.
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