Friday, August 16, 2013

Advanced Dog Education Points For Conditioning Your Dog

Advanced Dog Education Points For Conditioning Your Dog

By Glen Beer


Akeisha wrote to me with some extremely great questions. I've incorporated her letter (and my responses) below:

Hi,

It's Akeisha again.

I do see what you mean if it's on each of the time the dog will quickly overlook it really is on then will behave regardless. Ok, so the dog in no way wears a buckle collar once more? This can be what irks me. I need to be able to handle the dog irrespective of what collar is on not only the pinch or it may be no collar at all and also the dog still behaves. What if the owner for some explanation takes off the collar then they put the buckle collar on for ID but then forget the pinch collar? Then there isn't any handle.

[Adam Replies] Wrong! The dog gets conditioned. Take off the collar for awhile. Doesn't matter.

Do you ever within the instruction go back towards the buckle collar right after months of what you recommend with a dog which is pleased with undertaking the commands?

[Adam Replies] Yes, the dog does the command because he's pleased and he likes it. But at some point, there will be something that tempts him. That is where conditioning comes in.

Think of it like this: You have lived in the identical house for 10 years, proper? You get up within the middle in the evening and also you reach for the light switch that is certainly to the LEFT on the door. Fairly quickly, you get conditioned to attain out towards the LEFT on the door.

One day you travel and stay within a hotel. You wake up in the middle on the night and reach out for the LEFT from the door for the switch... even though you cognitively saw that the switch is on the Correct.

In reality, you may wake up for several nights-- possibly even weeks or months-- and nonetheless attain out to the LEFT, even though the switch is now on the right. Some individuals will continue reaching to the LEFT for the rest of their lives. Some will start reaching to the proper.

Those men and women need to be reinforced. Get it?

Motivational corrections if on the right dog won't frighten them or make them hate you I know but are not there other methods except using the collar that will ultimately be established thought coaching which will permit you to take the collar off and have handle?

[Adam Replies] Yeah, this way you can take the collar off and have manage, After THE DOG IS CONDITIONED. But sooner or later you are going to need to go back and reinforce, for most dogs. And definitely should you start expecting to function the dog about new distractions that it is in no way been proofed around, including chickens when the dog has in no way observed chickens.

Look, I don't make the guidelines. The dog is just not a robot that you could abruptly say, "He's done" and expect him to act regularly for the rest of his life. Like any partnership you've got with one more person, boundaries must be established and maintained. The dog is like your wife or husband... they are going to ultimately test you. :)

Final question, how can the dog not comprehend the never have it on given that it feels a great deal diverse than the buckle? Its like my id about my neck at school I have gotten utilized to it but I do recognize when it is off? Just for the record I've no issue with pinches, many members in my 4-H club use them and they function excellent around the right dog.

[Adam Replies] Due to the fact the way you ought to be utilizing the pinch collar is the fact that the dog (since he has restricted cause and logic) does not Understand that it is the pinch collar that permits you to give him good corrections. But it is much more than the pinch collar. If I place the dog in a variety of tiny yards, with no collar on ... and I am able to chase him down and make him come back to me, if he doesn't come when I contact... then the dog will understand THE UNDERLYING PREMISE that I can make him do it, if he doesn't. So, the pinch collar and also the long line make my job less difficult, but eventually, the dog knows (or he thinks at least) that I'm a man of my word and when I inform him to accomplish anything: If he doesn't do it, I am going to produce him do it. And his life is going to be a lot more enjoyable if he does it willingly. So the dog begins to extrapolate this principle to other commands, also.

Hope I'm not becoming irritating I just like to know why particular trainers value specific methods over others because I really like competing in obedience with my dog.

[Adam Replies] Keep instruction.

That is all for now, folks!




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