Enthusiasm!


Here's the plan:

.... a broad category of scent discrimination or .... place/item recognition ... very broad .....these broad categories would open up the door to finding and retrieving an object, going to a place and staying there, indicating an object, word recognition type games, etc.

Everyone will be using marker training, of course, like in the previous one.

And of course the actual specific goal for each trainer-dog team would be detailed on the signup thread in a couple of weeks.

So signups will be in a new thread in mid-October, and submissions in mid-November, so that even the judging will be done and the winner announced well before Thanksgiving.

So those who need to learn how to film a short clip of "what the dog doesn't do now but I will teach" to go with their entry should feel very free to start a "help help!" thread. You have time to learn it before the signup commences.

I'd like to give it a try, Amber is not doing nosework so would the name recognition be like having her pick a toy out of a lineup?

It's anything you want like that. (It's deliberately broad.)

That would certainly fit the parameters!

I think we'll give it a try.

 Quote: Jodi Moen

I think we'll give it a try.

The more, the merrier!



The signup thread will be about mid-October. That's where you declare your goal (and in most cases would post a brief clip showing how the dog does not yet know the wanted behavior).

So next one wold be about nosework?

Amber and I are still working on listening ears, so would anyone be bothered if we chose a small goal? This would be good for me to get back in the mode of everyday training. Any ideas on how we should choose a goal? Or should that be a new thread.




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http://leerburg.com/webboard/thread.php?topic_id=33729&page=1#383734



Edited by Connie Sutherland (10/05/2013 06:47 PM)
Edit reason: indicate separate thread

 Quote: Milanka Ratkovich

So next one wold be about nosework?

Not necessarily ....

Nosework is kind of a formalized "dog uses nose" protocol, and all we're saying here:

... a broad category of scent discrimination or .... place/item recognition ... very broad .....these broad categories would open up the door to finding and retrieving an object, going to a place and staying there, indicating an object, word recognition type games, etc.

is that a particular scent-discriminating behavior can be chosen as your goal in THIS contest. For example, one of my dogs has learned to indicate which upside-down cup has the food under it; this requires that he uses his nose. This would be doable for many, maybe most dogs ... the "training" is more about the indicating, since the dog already "knows" how to smell where the food is. (If you wonder about this, present your dog with two closed fists, one empty and one with meat in it. )

I should have said this when Jodi first mentioned not doing nosework yet.

Scent discrimination is actually a fun basis to build a behavior on. (The dog could knock over every cup with food under it but not the others, say, or the dog could find hidden family members and indicate in a manner that you train .... perhaps commanding by name .... "find Susie!" ... if or when the dog knows the names. These are just off the top of my head; there are lots of potential commands that could have a scent discrimination basis.)

Scent discrimination was just included as one of the ways the dog could find, recognize, go to, or do something with an item or place or person.

Did I explain it OK? Please have at it, anyone who can wants!


But scent discrimination is only one possible facet and is not at all a necessary part!

 Quote: Connie Sutherland

 Quote: Milanka Ratkovich

So next one wold be about nosework?

or the dog could find hidden family members and indicate in a manner that you train .... perhaps commanding by name .... "find Susie!" ... if or when the dog knows the names. These are just off the top of my head; there are lots of potential commands that could have a scent discrimination basis.)

Scent discrimination was just included as one of the ways the dog could find, recognize, go to, or do something with an item or place or person.

Did I explain it OK? Please have at it, anyone who can wants!

Like when we train the big dogs to find our little 4 lb. dog..."Where's Bitty?"

She doesn't go up/down stairs or jump on/off things. She's easy to hide.

'Zackly!

And check out this great list of suggestions from David:

http://leerburg.com/webboard/thread.php?topic_id=33729&page=1#383747