Help! How Can I Tell My Dog He's Wrong? #64
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
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Success in dog training comes down to three things. The reinforcement we are using, the training plan, and the environment where we are training our dog. But what happens when things don't go to plan, and our dog make a wrong choice? What are our options?
In the episode you'll hear:
• The four reactions that are common when a dog makes a mistake.
• About looking at your emotional state when you are training your dog.
• The reasons building a house is like dog training.
• About the use of Non Reward Markers (NRM) in dog training.
• How delivering a package relates to your dog training decisions.
• Why to only use an NRM when what you are teaching is a behaviour chain.
• The challenge of the overuse of a Non Reward Marker.
• When you should not use an NRM.
• Why we train an NRM like a recall, with reinforcement, before we ever use it.
• What unconscious reactions are and how they can be a mild verbal punisher.
• What an intimidating verbal or physical punisher is and how that could escalate.
• About what our dogs tell us about how well we've set them up for success.
• What can go wrong in training sessions (using a target stick as an example).
• Why every time you train and interact with your dog you are building a relationship.
• About the game of picking up colored tennis balls and what that means dogs.
• How easy success can be when you have great reinforcement and manipulate the environment.
Resources:
• Podcast Episode 59: Why Your Treats Aren't Working for Your Dog - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/59/
• Podcast Episode 6: The Art of Manipulation - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/6/
• Podcast Episode 4: T.E.M.P. (Tail, Eyes/Ears, Mouth, Posture) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/4/
• Video: Target Training for Dogs Part One - https://youtu.be/MzePo7RSQu4
• Blog Post: What IS Ideal Meaning of A NRM? - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2011/02/what-is-ideal-meaning-of-a-nrm/
• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/l4a9NsEK9Nc
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Because you've tuned into this podcast, there's a very good chance you believe like me that |
| 0:14.9 | our dogs are doing the best they can with the education we've provided them in the environment that we've put them in. |
| 0:23.7 | And if you were like me, that means success in dog training comes down to really three things. |
| 0:30.7 | It's number one, the reinforcement that we're using. Number two, the plan we have laid out for our training and finally, |
| 0:41.1 | the environment that we're training the dog in at that time. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to |
| 0:46.7 | Shape by Dog. If you're watching this on YouTube, go ahead. Smash that like button right now. |
| 0:53.0 | Let, I promise you, it's going to be worth it. Because |
| 0:56.4 | today we're talking about what happens when things don't go as planned, when we aren't |
| 1:03.9 | having success, when our dogs do make wrong choices. What are our options then? Hmm. The way I see it, there's really four things that are commonly done when the dog |
| 1:17.9 | makes a mistake. I think two of them are more reflexive and two of them are really intentional. |
| 1:25.0 | So, let's think about when you're training your dog, for example. What is your |
| 1:29.6 | emotional state when things are going well? You're happy, you're confident, everything's, |
| 1:34.8 | you know, tucking along. And what about when thing, your dog makes a mistake? Well, you, you |
| 1:41.0 | might be cool about it, but what if your dog continues to make a mistake or the mistake |
| 1:45.0 | they make is like, you know, horrific? You might start getting frustrated. You might even start |
| 1:51.0 | getting angry. And your emotional state dictates a lot what you do when your dog does something |
| 1:57.6 | that you don't think they should be doing. Because when you don't think they should |
| 2:01.3 | be doing, it ends up being a bit of a disappointment to you. So, those four things that I talked |
| 2:05.9 | about. When we're training our dogs, let's say I'm shaping my, you can see my puppy. |
| 2:10.4 | If you're watching this on YouTube, you can chances are, you can see my soon to be six-month |
| 2:13.9 | old puppy running around in behind here. And if I'm training her, so this |
| 2:19.5 | afternoon I took her out to the building and I was doing some shaping of getting up onto her |
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