Dog Training Outside The Box: Transfer Of Value Case Study #177
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
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When we train dogs with layered shaping, we train with out of the box thinking. In this episode, I’m giving a glimpse of what that looks like and how it relates to the transfer of value. It starts with knowing what a dog loves most of all. I’m also covering a case study on how we used the transfer of reinforcement value for a German Shepherd so that they could learn to retrieve without a force fetch.
In the episode you'll hear:
• What we need our dog to understand about reinforcement and what we need to understand.
• A review of the reinforcement process in our dog training.
• Why your dog's age, the location you are training, and what you are training matter.
• The importance of your placement and delivery of reinforcement.
• How we found something that a German Shepherd loved and used it for training.
• The process of transferring the value from bubbles to food with a target stick.
• Why we need to change a dog’s physiology for training.
• How ping-ponging reinforcements help with the transfer of value.
• That there’s not a linear path for all dogs, so we think outside the box.
• About our brand new free DoggyFlix video streaming adventure for dog people.
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Resources:
1. YouTube Playlist: Susan Garrett's Dog Training Philosophy and Training Processes - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy2An5_3KqDPqFVV6J6dYsYx
2. Podcast Episode 175: Food Luring VS Shaping In Dog Training: How Science Changed How I Teach Dogs - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/175/
3. Podcast Episode 174: Dopamine In Dog Training: Anticipation, Rewards, And The Transfer Of Value - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/174/
4. Podcast Episode 151: How Location Specific Reinforcement Markers Will Improve Your Dog Training! - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/151/
5. Podcast Episode 31: 5 Simple Hacks to Help Your Dog Learn Faster (Reinforcement Process) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/31/
6. Podcast Episode 176: Why Your Dog’s Emotions Are A Critical Element Of Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/176/
7. YouTube Playlist: Target Training for Dogs with Susan Garrett - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy3ylCyQ2bJQSCwo_ERiVHj3
8. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/MRohT2ioMUE
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Over the last few weeks, I have been rolling out a series that kind of grew organically |
| 0:05.4 | from your questions all about the methodology of how I train my dogs, how I come up with |
| 0:11.6 | the lesson plans for my students. And often it's, how do you train this without a lure, |
| 0:16.8 | Susan? It could be something as simple like, how do you teach healing without a food lure? |
| 0:21.3 | Or how do you teach your dog to point his back leg with or without a food lure? |
| 0:25.9 | Or how could you shape your dog to retrieve? |
| 0:29.8 | And my answer to that really requires some out-of-the-box thinking. |
| 0:34.5 | And tonight, I'm going to do a deep dive and give you a glimpse of |
| 0:38.9 | what that looks like. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm Susan Garrett. |
| 0:51.4 | Welcome to shape my dog. |
| 0:52.7 | In a podcast last week, I mentioned a German |
| 0:56.4 | shepherd that I was teaching in Atlanta. And this was at least or more than 20 years ago. I was giving |
| 1:01.9 | a seminar. This woman showed up right at the beginning of the day. She said, this is my dog. |
| 1:07.3 | Let's call her Bella. Honestly, my memory is not that good that I can remember either the woman's name or the dog's name. She said, I need to teach Bella how to retrieve the dumbbell |
| 1:15.4 | for obedience. And my instructor said that they would like to do a force fetch, which means |
| 1:21.8 | they were going to earpinch the dog until the dog opened its mouth, then they would put the |
| 1:26.6 | dumbbell in. And that's called |
| 1:28.7 | negative reinforcement. They remove the pain when the dog does what they want. You guys don't |
| 1:34.5 | really need to know that. If you are listening to this podcast, you probably don't ever want to |
| 1:37.9 | cause your dog pain. But this was what was going to be Bella's fate if I couldn't help |
| 1:43.8 | this woman somehow do that behavior. |
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