https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKoEYWfwqiQ Day 17 is about tracking progress from a plan with specific criteria. This is an efficient way to go forward in training. To takes steps necessary for progress and not get stuck. However, this way of tracking progress is a bit difficult for me since it’s very static. I’m not a behaviourist and think …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Jm8L-PkFg On day 16 we get to try to record data concerning the rate of reinforcement. How many times do I reward in a certain time? I believe that this exercise is mostly to show how rewards are very different and need to be considered before starting a new task. When working on small details …
https://youtu.be/vC5ROgAC1a8 Day 15 covers visual targeting. According to SOCS it can be useful for several reasons, but the one I find interesting is to be able to tell a dog that got problems meeting other dogs, that there is one coming. ”Do you see it?” kind of thing. I work a lot with ”gossip training” …
https://youtu.be/t3YvVLNUwXE Day 14 is about targeting. It’s funny because I didn’t know this would be in the course, but it’s exactly what we’ve been working on lately. I have signed up for a competition in scent detection and therefore I have been focusing on that for a bit. I’m a lot of days behind on …
Day 13 is about punishment which is a really sensitive subject. I realise that no matter how I write it, there are gonna be people that disagree. So I will start with saying that there is nothing saying that you need to do what other people are telling you, if it doesn’t feel right for …
Day 12 is about Operant Conditioning. This is something that get many people confused (including me, I realised). Operant conditioning is about consequences to behaviours. For example, the dog sits leads to it getting treats (sit = behaviour, adding treats = consequence). This can either make the sit happen more often, or make it happen …
https://youtu.be/iXEtWdqurnk Day 11 covers catching natural behaviour. I chose to teach Karma to shake on command because she loves swimming and always shakes on us. Just got through the first steps, but I did what I was supposed to, which was to arrange the environment so the behaviour was more likely to occur. I learnt …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lINY0BqrXA Day 10 is about the principles of shaping. What I found out is that shaping is something that has to be practiced often to not ”fall out of shape”. I noticed that I’m really rusty when it comes to shaping! Mostly found negative sides to my training as usual, but some stuff got better …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYA8yBoO9A4 In the Facebook forum for this course I bragged about my dogs already knowing today’s Skill-Up which was to get the dog to pivot with the front paws on a bucket by using the shaping method. I do this often at my courses and use my dogs to show how to start practicing. That …
https://youtu.be/zFKPXPPwBxM Comments will be updated shortly. This really shows my biggest problem in training: consistency. So check in later to learn more about that. Översättning Pros This icon will be used to indicate Pros Cons This symbol will be used to indicate Cons Low Arousal Lure Soon Soon
