Duane Hull Webboard User Reg: 09-23-2011
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You may have hit on it.
I have been working on positions at a distance, and I have stepped up the practice in that exercise in an effort to make her more comfortable at a distance. I've been training this dog for a while, and I am certain that her state is due to her becoming uncomfortable at great distance, moreso than any uncertainty about the commands.
I think the "invisible line" tip is where the answer lies. How did you reinforce and enforce the boundary until he grasped the concept and started complying?
You sit in a chair so *you* can't move and then rapid fire click/treat until they get it. Mark for the initial check in with you and throw the reward just beyond the line and keep the dog there through rapid reward. It's helpful to have a small visual marker for yourself at first. At first it looked like I was just clicking and treat tossing and he was pretty much constantly grabbing treats but that was to keep him in the right spot and to keep him from coming closer. Then start adding short duration (a second or two between the dog scarfing the treat down and you clicking/rewarding again) Since the spot was so highly reinforced at first, Kolt started shuffling back to get back to it just a bit if he was too close and didn't get the click. I actually rewarded that a bit too even if he wasn't quite behind the line while he was trying to grasp the concept.
Trying to teach backwards crawling today, getting lots of behaviors - dead dog, roll over, backing up while standing up -- but not backwards crawling. Also a bit of barking at me, which=frustration, not "getting" what I'm asking.
This sounds like fun. It's so cold up here that we've been doing lots of things in the house to entertain and tire my two out. Now we've got something new to teach.
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Re: Kolt @ 9 m/o
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