🐾 #tb2017🔙 Teaching Boston to pick-up a toy! One of the practical training skills I had to demonstrate during my MSc in Clinical Animal Behaviour 🎓🐶I got a 85%, not perfect but ain’t bad 😎
Dog training with a touch of science ✏️📚
1️⃣ Classic conditioning is about pairing neutral cues, like a verbal cue with something like your fav food. For example, showing the toy while saying “chat” followed by a tasty treat creates a positive association between the toy and “chat”. 🍗🤤
2️⃣ Operant conditioning is all about cause and effect. When a dog performs a desired behaviour, like sitting on cue, they receive a reward, such as a tasty treat. This encourages them to repeat the behaviour in the future. Through operant conditioning, dogs learn to associate their actions with outcomes, shaping their behaviour accordingly. 👍
3️⃣ Overshadowing is when one cue overshadows another, making it harder for the dog to learn both. Imagine teaching your dog to respond to both a verbal cue and a hand signal for “sit.” If you consistently present both cues together, but the hand signal is more noticeable, your dog may focus on that and ignore the verbal cue. To avoid overshadowing, it’s best to introduce cues separately at first, then gradually combine them once your dog understands each one individually. 🙉🙈
4️⃣ The Premack principle is all about using preferred activities to reinforce less preferred ones. It’s like saying, “Work first, play later!” For example, you can reward your dog with a game of Tug, my dog’s fav activity, for successfully responding to a cue, like sitting. This motivates them to perform the desired behaviour in anticipation of the enjoyable reward.🙃
5️⃣ Discrimination learning is about teaching dogs to distinguish between different cues and respond appropriately to each. It’s like understanding someone’s instructions in a busy place – you need to filter out the noise and foc
🎉🐾 Claudia and I are over the moon to congratulate our latest intermediate class students! 🌟 In our intermediate class, we focus on a crucial skill: having your furry friend maintain focus on you, even amidst distractions. 🐶 It’s all about building that strong bond and communication between you and your pup! 🐾
Congrats to Scout, Blue & Herbie. Keep up the amazing work, everyone! 🐕💫
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🐾🎥 Behind the scenes fun! 🎬
#tb2022 Practicing our training skills – with one of us playing the role of a puppy and getting really frustrated when instructions aren’t clear or waiting too long to be rewarded 😄🐾
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Hello everyone!!! 👋 For those who don’t know me, my name is Antonella and I’m the face behind A.W.C
I thought it was about time to introduce myself to you guys and share with you why I believe our classes are unique and great! 😊
Thanks for following us and all your love 🧡
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When I asked “show me what your dog can do” expecting the usual Sit, Down… 😱 😍
💜 Well done Team Hachi!!!
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Meet our new puppy students, Bertie 💜 Madralev
Nothing is more rewarding for us than catching our clients smiling with their puppies 😍
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What a fun session! 💜 Martha slowly built confidence and the required coordination skills to jump the hurdles & go through the tunnel. #nailedit
🐾 Training doesn’t always have to be serious. It’s about providing mental stimulation and finding fun activities to bond with your dog 🐾
(We offer private indoor training sessions to work on serious stuff but also just for fun.)
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NEW PUPPY CLASS STARTING THIS SUNDAY 30th @ 12 p.m in KENSAL RISE W10 - visit our website for more information & booking https://www.animalwellbeingcentre.com
Our puppy classes are carefully thought to ensure we set every puppy and their pawparents up for success, which is why every family has its own section so puppies can be as relaxed as possible and learn.
It's a common belief that socialization means simply exposing your puppy to lots of people and other dogs. However, that's only part of the story.
Socialization is a critical part of a puppy's development process. It allows the puppy to learn to communicate and interact with other dogs and people in a way that is appropriate and safe. But socialization doesn't mean throwing your puppy into a sea of stimulation.
Socialization needs to be done thoughtfully and gradually, ensuring that the experiences are positive, and the pup is not overwhelmed or frightened. The main goal of socialization is to help the pup to learn new experiences, gentle behaviours, and to understand how to react in different situations.
In summary, socialization is an ongoing process that should involve regular, positive, and supervised experiences for your puppy, ensuring that they are exposed to new situations, people and dogs in a supportive and gentle way, to help them to develop into happy, confident, and well-adjusted adult dogs.
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🐾 Teaching your dog to leave food without asking them to and to look at you instead is very handy because if your dog finds some food in the ground before you, you won't have time to cue them to leave it 🐾
This video is not in the final stage. Later, we will reward Spot for looking up voluntarily and then; the actual game will begin! Sometimes he will be allowed to have it; other times, he will be asked to leave it. Either way, we will reinforce Spot for making the right choice.
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OMG… I definitely have a soft spot for this boy!! 🖤🐾🖤
But let's stay focused: Here is an example of how a Juvenile Assessment Consultation may look at the centre. While we discuss in-depth the behaviour problem to understand its cause, dogs are free to explore, which in addition allows us to assess how they respond to novelties.
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👀Watch this space 👀
The first dog training centre and behaviour consultation service is opening very soon in Notting Hill W10
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Henny refuses to walk wearing a harness. That’s fine. Some dogs do. Like I refuse to wear 👠 👠
👉 If you teach your dog to connect with you and walk nicely next to you without pulling on the leash, a flat collar attached to a leash (not extendable!) is totally fine by me.
‼️ If you’ve been advised to use a [half] choke collar OR slip leash, be aware of the potential physical dangers that they can cause:
- whiplash
- crushing of the trachea with partial or complete asphyxiation
- crushing and/or fracture of the bones in the larynx
- dislocated neck bones
- bruising of the esophagus
- brain damage and prolapsed eyes caused by sharp increases in pressure in the head
- to name just a few -
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When the training is fun, the bond is strong! 💃🕺
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👉 Training using positive reinforcement helps turning fear, anxiety into joy and fulfilment - for both, human & dog.
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Background:
“Archie, rescued as an adult, found 1 month before being adopted, in May 2020. He was found tied inside a bin bag inside a rubbish bin in poor condition. At first, he wouldn’t go out, was reactive to strangers, noises & movements.”
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👉 Changes in problem behaviour can take some time.
💜 With Archie, it is still a work in progress, but he has managed to come this far, so soon, thanks to his hoomans’ dedication and patience! 💜
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🆘 “Puppy is chasing & nipping at our feet”
👉 Reward your dog with a small treat for staying still while you move.
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✅Start by making very small movements, and slowly build up until you can show off your breakdance moves!
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“Jump”
👉 If your dog ❤️ jumping, teach them to do it on cue!
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✅“Jump” = reward
❌ Jumping without been asked = no reward
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Not sure who’s having more fun, if Archie or his hooman. I think both 🤩
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Re-posting (Mac when he was a pup! 🥰)
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Socializing your puppy is about building confidence & spatial awareness
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