Guess I'm gonna build out a bunny pen today. Eventually my wife is just not gonna let me leave the house anymore. 😅
Volume up for the hollow ca-thunk. 😅 this poor dog catches as many balls with her forehead as she does her mouth.
Bribery vs Reinforcement
The same way I can use the same stim as punishment or reinforcement, treats can either be Bribery or reinforcement. The difference is in how they're applied.
If I use the ball as a distraction, it's Bribery. We never addressed the issue, we just avoided it. Redirected the unwanted behavior, but never addressed the unwanted behavior.
If I use the ball as a reward, we address the unwanted behavior and give the dog a reason to offer a different response. In this video, you see the end result of this because the dog acknowledges the truck, and THEN picks up her ball knowing her payment is due.
Are e-collar abusive? Are they "punishment tools"?
Absolutely not. Here i show you the tool used both as punishment and as reinforcement.
The punishment is the exact same stim level used for reinforcement. The only difference is the timing which it is applied. In neither application do you see anything painful or intimidating to the dog.
Patience. Absolutely necessary in training. However, that does not mean we just sit around and do nothing. If you're being so patient that the dog is doing to die of old age before he's controllable..... that's not helpful to anyone.
Patience is working a dog through their issues and giving them time to experience the moment. Whatever emotions that may bring. And then we guide them in the right direction as they become capable of handling stress.
The only way to build resilience to stress is to experience it regularly and overcome.
Markers. Classical conditioning only happens when the marker is followed by a certain stimulus. It's an uncontrollable reaction, when the dog hears the marker the prize is coming.
There's a lot of pseudo dog trainers pretending to use markers, but you see the dog is obviously not classically conditioned.
Markers are a key part of dog training. Bad timing or a lack of classical conditioning can be the difference in success and failure.
Why people say their pit bull "just snapped".
Pit Bulls have a reputation for being unpredictable. So many stories quote the same lines, "i don't know what happened, he just snapped".
A pit bull is the most predictable dog I've ever been around. They're just different than other dogs. People miss the subtle signs and never see it coming. The dog didn't "snap", the human just didn't notice the signals. Usually because they didn't know to watch for them.
This is TRUE animal aggression. Not fear based. Not prey driven. Not territorial. Not taught. This is that 1% of dogs that are truly animal aggressive.
The warnings are the rapid tail wagging, licking his lips, and slow deep breathing. There's not a bunch of fussing, he's just calmly waiting to get within reach.
I said "genetics play a factor" and then he does the most Redboy 💩 ever. 😆 (a select few will understand that one.lol)
#apbtlife
I can tell you the secret to life in under 10 minutes. The application will take a lifetime.
This applies to dog training as well. Your energy will be matched by the dog. But what does that mean? Nobody ever explains in detail.
Let me point you in the right direction
Wanna know the secret to dog training? Diversity.
The exact same thing I'm doing with Gemma would be the exact wrong thing to do with Lucy. You have to know what to apply and when. Per dog. It's never as simple as reinforcement vs punishment. There's an infinite amount of combinations that may be used with any particular dog.
In this video, I do both punish and reinforce aggression. Can you tell me exactly which moments were which? Most people can't.
Why did I do it this way? It's not something you'll find in any training book. Its not "the proper way" by any means. But it's what is necessary to bring this particular dog out of her shell so that we can even begin to work on anything. The only thing she feels confident about is whipping another dogs ass. So I use that to my advantage. Trigger the confidence and reinforce it. Over time, she will learn that nothing happens. Eventually sees no point in the aggression, and then begins to think.
These 2 dogs will probably never have any contact with each other or any other dog. Maybe muzzled but the aggression will never "go away". It's not something to be "fixed". It's there on purpose. The question is what to use it for?
When food is not an option. This is just to show how fearful she acts when food is around. And this is after being here a year.... This dog went through some 💩 and it had permanent effects. She was probably never very food driven anyway, most of my APBTs haven't been. Now what?
Tomorrow I'll give you peek at her other side. I'll show you that same fearful little lady, turn into a force of nature. I can't fix what happened before me, but I can work with what's here.
That's what it means to be a dog trainer. That's what separates us from the rest.
How to give a correction the force free way. No pain, fear or intimidation
