Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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How do you guys begin to teach differentiation between named toys or items?
I'd work with each all alone and name one at a time, not combining them until the names were solid all alone.
Is this what you guys do?
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Yes. Pretty much what I've done in the past.
Just through daily "conversation" Thunder knows the difference between his Kong and food dish.
I just say Kong and he looks for it.
His food bowl is often in the dog house or near where he lays in the sun all day.
I say bowl and he goes gets it.
Really easy with important items. With outher items it would just be a matter of adding importance to it, meaning marker training for the item.
His Kong and his bowl were just a natural progression because both lead to a reward of a meal or a game of fetch.
He's always had a natural retrieve. for competition it was just a matter of putting the formal bits to it.
forgot! He also knows what my car keys are simply because I've lost them twice and a simple "Find it" and he did because of human scent on them so I just added those to his fetch games.
Here's a clip of Betty's Pinker a couple of weeks in:
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Kasey is slowing coming along with trying to ignore goldfish crackers being held all around his nose. I found a good video on youtube that broke the trick down into small steps and it seems to be working fairly well so far. I definitely have to make sure we don't practice before dinner when he's hungry though - I could lose a finger...
We only have one more week as of Sunday, right? Not sure that goldfish will be sitting on his nose by then!!
Nope, we have extended the deadline ... it's now Sunday 09/28, midnight!
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How do you guys begin to teach differentiation between named toys or items?
I'd work with each all alone and name one at a time, not combining them until the names were solid all alone.
Is this what you guys do?
Quote: Bob Scott
Yes. Pretty much what I've done in the past.
Just through daily "conversation" Thunder knows the difference between his Kong and food dish.
I just say Kong and he looks for it.
His food bowl is often in the dog house or near where he lays in the sun all day.
I say bowl and he goes gets it.
Really easy with important items. With outher items it would just be a matter of adding importance to it, meaning marker training for the item.
His Kong and his bowl were just a natural progression because both lead to a reward of a meal or a game of fetch.
He's always had a natural retrieve. for competition it was just a matter of putting the formal bits to it.
forgot! He also knows what my car keys are simply because I've lost them twice and a simple "Find it" and he did because of human scent on them so I just added those to his fetch games.
Here's a clip of Betty's Pinker a couple of weeks in:
(I'm posting it for Betty ... temporary URL glitch.)
Betty, he has made such progress, from not wanting to even touch the metal with his mouth.
I see a couple of little things that I almost hate to bring up (having learned that I do forget to mention how much good there is with a teeny bit of "bad" .... typical eldest sister )... one is that I might want to fade the pointing (when you point to the second tool).
Also, you marked and rewarded for that last toss of his toward you (with the knife). And you use your verbal marker as encouragement once in a while .... that is, you say "yes," which I'd always follow with a reward, where you might want to use a bridge instead.
This is really mainly technicalities of marker training.
I love seeing Pinker so interested, trotting right over there and back like it was his job and he liked it!
Progress! Forgive his lack of engagement in video 2, we just had seen the cat in the bathroom and he really wanted to go find and eat her, not train. Normally I would just have done it later but I had the camera all ready to go.
I promise the FINAL video you will be able to see clearly, I'm just having a problem putting the camera in a place where a tail can't accidentally dislodge it and having a good view of the floor.
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I'm having camera trouble as well. The backplate on my iPhone is scratched so the camera is all blurry. New backplate should be here tomorrow if UPS doesn't deliver it to the wrong house again.
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)... one is that I might want to fade the pointing (when you point to the second tool). 
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Normally I would just have done it later but I had the camera all ready to go.
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