A blast of cuteness! Pebbles is my 3rd puppy to bring about using these techniques and she is adding more data to support my principles. 😍 In other words—Pebbles is incredibly cute, fun and takes my mind away from the not so fun things in my life. Enjoy—I know I did.
A new post to my Pebbles story. Pebbles is learning a lot of brand new things.
Tuff is doing command discrimination game at 25 feet.
Jada’s scent article training is progressing well.
Okay--so now you might be impressed. I know I am impressed at how smart Jada is. In four days Jada went from locating a tin containing food and two articles to locating the tin that had my scent on it. This is how it works: I have 4 tins--one has a pink dot on it and inside there are two articles and some food. I scented the articles, food, and the tin. Along with that, I have 3 more identical tins each containing food and two articles but I did not scent those tins.
Day 1: The scented tin contains food and 2 scented articles. The other 3 tins contain 2 unscented articles but no food. Jada's task was to find the food.
Day 2: Same as day one. Jada's task was to find food.
Day 3: The scented tin contains food and 2 scented articles. The other 3 tins contain 2 unscented articles and unscented food. Jada's task is to locate the tin that has my scent on it.
Day 4: Same as day 3 but Jada because super confident. I'm tellin ya--she could balance my checkbook for me. Between each rep I switch up the location of the scented tin. You can see the red dot that marks the scented tin. LOL
Today I moved Jada to the next level: Find the tin with my scent. The first repetition is review only one tin has food and my scent. After that, 3 of the tins contain unscented articles and unscented food—but unscented I mean I was careful not to touch them. Only 1 tin contains scented food, articles and my scent on the outside. I love how Jada works to figure it out. The look she was giving me—if she could talk, I’d bet she would ask, where is my hint? Enjoy….
Day 2 of teaching Jada articles. Right now I'm using a skill (finding food odor) to create a foundation to teach a new skill (finding my odor). Here is day two: Still working on the pattern of checking each tin for odor--going down the line. Tomorrow I'm going to begin using this pattern to teach Jada to locate my odor. At this point, there is no retrieval involved. Connie showed me how to do this.
I'm following a technique I learned from Connie Cleveland Nolan to teach Jada articles.
I hope the triple digit temps are finished. This morning Blondie began day 1 of 3 handed casting. She had a great time!
