Christina Stockinger Webboard User Reg: 01-23-2015
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My dogs are trained to go on to an item listening to a cue. It is a cue just meaning "go up to". But as I see they will have to learn to go on to different items, should I stick to my verbal cue, generalizing the activity of going up? Or can I name two or three items (bed, mat, banc, pad ...)?
When I go near the bed or other item and give the specific command, they know perfectly what they have to do. They also make it from a certain distance (short one), but only when I am staring at the target item. On verbal cue alone they until now don't distinguish well, but are improving. Can I go on like this or is this asked too much?
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Put the item with the command IF they fully understand the "go to" command and the "bed, etc" as individual commands.
Start with one object, get it solid and then add objects as the dog starts to understand.
Most ANY command we give our dogs that entail multiple behaviors will be learned much easier as individual commands.
I compare it to teaching a ball crazy dog to fetch by tossing the ball and hoping for the best.
Obviously it will chase the ball but if it has no idea what fetch means it's chances of bring it back are slim without a genetically natural retrieve.
Your dog may know "got to" and it may know "bed" but until both "go to" and "bed" as individual commands are solid it may be confusing to the dog to put them together.
Christina Stockinger Webboard User Reg: 01-23-2015
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Thanks a lot Bob! Yes I am trying to do this consistently. The word "bed" they understand very well, I guess because I used this much more. The "Up to" I use for the moment for going up on to every other item, so that they generalize the activity itself. From naming other items than "bed" I've stepped back, because I can see it is too difficult for the time being.
Thanks, your answer is great help - Christina
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Christina Stockinger Webboard User Reg: 01-23-2015
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Yes, the bed is far from other items I chose for them to step on. But two of them were to near to each other. I left them now completely away for the moment. I think I was trying to generalize the stepping up too early. Thanks for your advice, it made me aware that I've been advancing too rapidly.
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