Jazzy
Well, I got a few questions... I'll answer them all, since none were too crazy or personal. :)
We'll start with the dog.
Katy asked: What sort of training (attempts at training) do you do with your dog?
So far, she's learned to sit, lie down, stay (most of the time), not chew on Mary and Joseph's heads, and catch treats and sometimes toys in her mouth. We are still working on not chewing up printer ink.
I don't train her. Brad does. He watches YouTube videos to learn what to do. We have a clicker and cheese. After she obeys/performs the desired action, he clicks and gives her the cheese. Eventually, he weans her off the cheese and just clicks. After a while, she learns to do it without any reward, other than praise.
We want her to learn not to jump on people and to stay in the backyard but aren't really sure how to teach that. She just gets soooo excited. Brad's also tried "shake," but it's not going anywhere. He read that, because it's not a natural motion for a dog, it's really difficult to teach.
Recently, Jazzy has started to sometimes bring her nylon bone, blanket, and squeaky bear out to the rug to snuggle. It's cute. She does it mostly when she's waiting for Brad to come home. It's quite clear that she loves Brad best, which is just how it should be, since she's really his dog.
And yes, she's pretty much an indoor dog now. She has definite limits, though. And yes, I've learned that I really shouldn't say "never."
We'll start with the dog.
Katy asked: What sort of training (attempts at training) do you do with your dog?
So far, she's learned to sit, lie down, stay (most of the time), not chew on Mary and Joseph's heads, and catch treats and sometimes toys in her mouth. We are still working on not chewing up printer ink.
I don't train her. Brad does. He watches YouTube videos to learn what to do. We have a clicker and cheese. After she obeys/performs the desired action, he clicks and gives her the cheese. Eventually, he weans her off the cheese and just clicks. After a while, she learns to do it without any reward, other than praise.
We want her to learn not to jump on people and to stay in the backyard but aren't really sure how to teach that. She just gets soooo excited. Brad's also tried "shake," but it's not going anywhere. He read that, because it's not a natural motion for a dog, it's really difficult to teach.
Recently, Jazzy has started to sometimes bring her nylon bone, blanket, and squeaky bear out to the rug to snuggle. It's cute. She does it mostly when she's waiting for Brad to come home. It's quite clear that she loves Brad best, which is just how it should be, since she's really his dog.
And yes, she's pretty much an indoor dog now. She has definite limits, though. And yes, I've learned that I really shouldn't say "never."
To train a dog to "shake" you have to break it into several steps. As you are teaching the steps think of each of the steps as individual behaviors. You have to finish one before you can move to the next one. As with any training session intersperse these new commands with things she already knows.
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2. Then, move your hand a few inches away from her paw. If you've done your job right on the first step she will know that to get her reward she has to move her paw. Depending on the dog she might start doing this already toward the end of step one, go ahead and reward her if she does this.
3. Similar to step two, but keep your hand farther up so she has to lift her paw farther.
4. Place your hand at the level where you would like her paw to be for a shake. When she places her paw in your hand don't click immediately. Once she understands that she had to keep her paw there slightly increase the amount of time before you click.
5. Similar to step four, but you enclose your hand around her paw and move it in a shake. Start with a short shake and increase as she becomes more comfortable with this behavior.
Let me know if you have questions.
FYI, I found out with Ellie that you have 2.5 seconds from an action to reward or punish or the connection won't be made in the brain of your dog.
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