Off Leash Listening Skills For Dogs Part 3: Training Steps #152
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
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We’re now in part three of our series on dogs being able to respond when they are far away, and I’ve got a training plan for you. It’s super important for your dog’s safety that they can listen at a distance and come when called. A recall from something like deer or bunnies all begins with your dog being able to listen close by, and in part three, we’re growing the fundamental skills to listening off leash and away from you.
In the episode you'll hear:
• The errors you might be making in training sit, down and stand.
• All the ways you can proof your dog’s understanding of your cues.
• How we want our dogs to be able to think even if they are excited.
• Why you need to know if your dog is really listening or just guessing.
• That you need to be on Team Distraction before you are on Team Distance.
• The training steps to grow and test your dog’s listening abilities with position changes.
• That what you are teaching might not be what your dog is learning.
• How to fix common challenges with position changes at a distance.
• About the importance of reinforcing away from you for your dog to listen far away.
• How to transition from inside your house to outside to grow layers of understanding.
ItsYerChoice Game:
Learn how to play ItsYerChoice (IYC) - https://recallers.com/iycsummit-join/
Resources:
1. Podcast Episode 147: Teach Your Dog To Listen Off Leash And Far Away - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/147/
2. Podcast Episode 148: Your Dog Listening At A Distance Part 2: Critical Timing Of Distractions - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/148/
3. Podcast Episode 12: When Helping Your Dog is an Illusion - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/12/
4. Podcast Episode 151: How Location Specific Reinforcement Markers Will Improve Your Dog Training! - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/151/
5. Podcast Episode 42: Behavior Chains: Are You Teaching Your Dog to be Bad to be Good? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/42/
6. Podcast Episode 21: The 5 Critical Dog Training Layers for Confidence with Anything - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/21/
7. YouTube Video: Perch Work (Pivots and Spins) - https://youtu.be/O6sj6fTJnFc
8. Food Toy: Gamble Ball from 4MyMerles - https://www.4mymerles.com/product/gamble-ball/
9. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/jJqeiBbU7Pg
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you spend any time on YouTube, you may have seen the video of Fenton in Richmond Park. |
| 0:07.7 | That is where a, it looks like a Labrador Retriever is not listening to his owner, call him nine times, |
| 0:16.3 | and in between he's calling for help from our Lord and Savior. And Fenton still doesn't listen, |
| 0:23.4 | ending up chasing all of this wildlife in the park. That is an extreme example of a dog who is |
| 0:31.0 | not listening at a distance. And today, I'm going to help you make sure that never happens |
| 0:36.7 | to you and your dog. |
| 0:37.7 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. |
| 0:50.4 | While getting a dog that recalls off of livestock is a level 100 challenge at working at a |
| 0:58.9 | distance, it all begins with your dog just listening at a distance. Yes, there's a lot of games |
| 1:04.4 | where our recallers program comes in that will help a dog like Fenton always listen when there's livestock in the area, |
| 1:12.4 | but it starts with the dog just listening. So if you've been following along with this series, |
| 1:17.6 | you'll remember that I shared that mastery is just mastering the fundamentals, that we need |
| 1:22.7 | the dog really understanding behaviors super close before we ever try them further away. |
| 1:28.6 | And so I suggested we pick three behaviors. |
| 1:31.2 | I thought, sit down and stand. |
| 1:33.9 | I provided videos to teach two of those. |
| 1:36.3 | I will give you an upcoming video on teaching the third as well. |
| 1:39.3 | And I asked you to just practice those close up. |
| 1:43.4 | And here's what I observed because a lot of you posted |
| 1:46.4 | videos on social media. Some of you mailed it. Amazing, amazing work, but some of you were helping. |
| 1:54.0 | And I bet it was unconscious help. So you would ask your dog to sit and you would repeat the |
| 1:59.1 | cue more than once or down and they wouldn't |
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