The Charger LOVES to swim to her target. Here’s a little edit of water training from today. Hope you’re enjoying your training this weekend!
The Charger enjoying our afternoon training.
The simple things can be the GREAT things.
Go on a walk with your K9, without your "to do list", without talking on your phone or scrolling as your drag your dog along. Lol.
Go let your dog be free to do "dog things" and watch. You'll learn, and your dog will thing you are FANTASTIC!
It was really cold this morning, LOL Enjoy!!
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The simple things can be the GREAT things.
Go on a walk with your K9, without your "to do list", without talking on your phone or scrolling as your drag your dog along. Lol.
Go let your dog be free to do "dog things" and watch. You'll learn, and your dog will thing you are FANTASTIC!
It was really cold this morning, LOL Enjoy!!
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Reinforcers are relative, not absolute.
Not every toy or treat works for every dog. Not every toy (or treat) works in every situation. Sometimes when the behavior we are training is one the dog thinks is hard, we can improve our reinforcer - maybe it's a hot dog piece and not kibble, maybe it's retrieve that ball on a tug and not just a tug grab.
The reinforcer is relative to the dog and to the event.
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Dogs can do amazing things if we raise the criteria for reinforcement thoughtfully.
Raise criteria in increments small enough that the dog has a realistic chance of reinforcment. Everytime you raise a criterion you are changing the rules. The dog has to be given the opportunity to discover that though the rules have changed, reinforcers can easily continue to be earned by an increase in exertion. (From "Don't Shoot The Dog!", Karen Pryor)
From a divers point of view, here is Charger training. She loves this part of her job and we got here in inrements.
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We've been thinking about belief. Do you think it matters? Take a leap (yeahh, this is Charger jumping off the dock) and ponder it.
The secret to good training… a reinforcer is anything, that occurring in conjunction with an act, tends to increase the probability that the act will occur again. If you haven't started to read "Don't Shoot The Dog!" - start today!
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We love dogs. So GRATEFUL for dogs, right?!?! #coachingdog
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Yeah we love dogs! And working dogs add so much spice to life!
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Wee aversives are everywhere. #CoachingTheDog
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HandlerCraft can mean understanding all the elements that create great training evolutions.
Think about:
Controls - clean versions of your target odor containers, change up when you add them, sometimes before the target goes in, sometimes after.
Background - add things to your training scenario that will be in your deployment, extra vehicles, extra humans, singing, dancing, shouting, fighting, playing catch
Distractors - don’t forget items you dog loves, but hopefully avoids while in their hunt for target.
Mind - make note of your abilities to be “in it” with your dog, are your fully present, or are you stressed by the distractors, are you joking and talking with your crew, or are you really there for your partner, do you “get” your dog, have your dog in your head?
Just some ideas to help your next training.
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This month we are reading “Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor - it first came out in 1984 a long time ago, but it has sold millions of copies all over the world, and honestly it’s still fantastic.
Grab a copy. Easy to read.
Ok? So here’s why we are reading this book this month: There are 22 best practices that every dog handler should know and use in their daily life:
10 Laws of Shaping
4 Conditions of Stimulus Control
8 Ways to Get Rid of Unwanted Behavior
It’s good stuff.
Don’t Shoot The Dog describes the principles of training with reinforcement in a way you will understand.
Yes, this is where the “clicker” comes into play… nah, don’t worry about it, it’s ok. The click is simply a fantastic communication tool - a very clear message your dog knows loves. Your dog LOVES clear comms.
So get the book, start reading and we’ll start working through these best practices.
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Believe! #CoachingTheDog
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Learning from Dr Susan Friedman (ya gotta google her and dig in) there are so many wonderful topics - so easy to learn these days, right?
Cool thought of the day … reinforcement - ya know the R+ et al , operant conditioning … the thought experiment of the day.
Dr Friedman shares a reality - “cultural fog” - meaning what is out there, for info, might not be as accurate as it should be - and we may have blurred the technical details here.
Rewards are wonderful. Examples are annual bonuses, we love em. But they are not reinforcements - why? Cuz they do not have the immediacy required for the basic reinforcement definition.
Reinforcements happen immediately after a behavior and will increase the likelihood of that behavior happening again … because the operator (you? Lol. Ok. The dog) realizes their behavior makes the reinforcement happen. So they do more of it.
Rewards are lovely. But they are not training methods to enhance a behavior. Think about it … you work all year to get a year end bonus - which is awesome. But it doesn’t affect your ability, you the operator, to change a specific behavior. It may help you like the company. It very likely doesn’t change behavior and is not a training tool.
Rewards. We like em.
Reinforcements. We LOVE em.
Thank you Dr Friedman.
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Oh we love this … YEA. It’s true. Your dog loves new things. Ha!#CoachingTheDog
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Yeahh. We are still loving looking over the presentations from the great K9 Sci Con (held last may in Miami) and are #grateful !#CoachingTheDog
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Do you know Connie Cleveland? We love her! An amazing trainer.
From a detection dog standpoint - or in a dog discipline that’s not obedience-forward - it’s easy to say “oh, she’s training obedience” and kinda write it off. Yeahhhh … don’t do that! LOL
This is one of those sources of information you will love. Even if obedience-precision is not such a big deal for you, the information Connie Cleveland shares is foundation based in a way that will matter to your detection journey.
Sign up for her blog, and every once in a while you’ll get a snippet of awesomeness (her emails are all awesome of course, but thoughtful Handlers realize that some of the information smacks just right for a certain point in our journey, right? For example, the other day we received a subject “Randomizing Rewards” with a lead-in talking about how it’s challenging to teach dogs to love behaviors that are not naturally motivating.
Enjoy your next training! Think about incorporating good random theory into your learning. Luv ya!
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