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
https://youtu.be/QU_eYV22rls I’m a bit behind on the blog posts, but I’m keeping up with the challenge of training every day. The videos are waiting to be edited, but will show up little by little. Today’s challenge was the duration marker or ”keep-going signal”. First I had to teach Rusa to bow and then to keep …
https://youtu.be/5A07eNgjg24 Today I thought the exercise was a bit difficult. But in the end I interpreted it in my own way. It’s about what’s happening between the marker and the actual reward, which is also important to the learning process. This is especially interesting when wanting to get duration in a position. Here I’m trying …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhMsj0fEA3E This time I decided to not focus on finishing the task, but to use this opportunity to evaluate my timing and concentration skills. I can see that when I can’t focus (after a minute or two), the behaviour is deteriorating. So, it’s important to shorten the sessions to get a better result. It would …
Criteria and planning was what we had to work on today. We were supposed to teach the dog to target different colours in circles (bulls eye target). I read a bit of ideas and went for the one where you had to cut out one colour and then put it back together to form the …
https://youtu.be/JJHVOhoYPkA Today’s challenge was to get a treat lure active compared to yesterdays’ slow lure. With this we’re supposed to teach the dog to back around us. I feel that I have been a bit to stressed this week. I have a hard time focusing and taking the time I need to complete the tasks. …
Our second mission is the low arousal lure. It means that the dog is supposed to focus on a treat (that is removed later on). I have often used this way of attaining a behaviour. But it is all in the details and I normally make my dogs follow the treat very closely to get …
