Use These Simple Shaping Hacks To Expedite Your Dog Training #259
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 14 February 2024
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Summary
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Are you ready to take your dog training to the next level? Whether you're just starting, have been at it a while, or are an experienced dog trainer, I've got hacks to fast track success and take you and your dog to a completely different level of understanding. I'm diving into shaping behavior and why it's the key to unlocking rapid learning for you and your dog. Shaping is not a training method but how all animals learn, and I've got simple yet powerful tips for shaping success, plus you’ll learn how to start training the paws up trick.
In this episode you’ll hear:
• The power of shaping in dog training, regardless of skill level.
• My journey from using lures to exclusively shaping with my dog Buzz.
• Differentiating between "navel gazing" shaping and linear shaping vs. outside-the-box shaping.
• My recent experiment with luring and targeting with my puppy Prophet.
• The importance of shaping in bringing understanding to dogs.
• Reasons why many trainers still prefer luring over shaping.
• Why shaping is a natural learning process for all animals, not just dogs.
• The game Tater plays when my dogs are chewing bones.
• Understanding the ABCs of shaping: antecedent, behavior, consequence.
• Importance of reinforcement hierarchy and classical conditioning in shaping.
• Why we need to split behaviors into smaller pieces for effective shaping.
• How to shape dogs to do the Paws Up trick.
• How creating antecedent arrangements guides the dog's behavior.
• The cheat code for successful shaping sessions.
• About DASH: Desire, Accuracy, Speed, Habitat.
• Creating success with a plan and lighthearted approach.
Shaping and Reinforcement
• Podcast Episode 5: What is Shaping And How Can Dogs Shape Us - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/5/
• YouTube Playlist: Reinforcement, Permissions and Transfer of Value in Dog Training with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy1IUj_4P54q2PIuLNtnXjFO&feature=shared
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Resources:
1. Podcast Episode 243: Training My New Puppy, What He Knows So Far: Susan Garrett’s Plan And Puppy Schedule - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/243/
2. YouTube Playlist: Target Training for Dogs with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy3ylCyQ2bJQSCwo_ERiVHj3&feature=shared
3. Podcast Episode 175: Food Luring VS Shaping In Dog Training: How Science Changed How I Teach Dogs - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/175/
4. YouTube Playlist: The Heart/Mind Connection Side of Dog Training with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy1ruLW0CujlHgzCiTLK2Rfh&feature=shared
5. Podcast Episode 202: Getting A Happy Well Behaved Dog With The ABCs Of Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/202/
6. Podcast Episode 245: Make Dog Training Easy! Quick Guide To Antecedent Arrangements - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/245/
7. Podcast Episode 16: The Thing Before Your Dog’s Thing - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/16/
8. Podcast Episode 78: How to Train a Rescue Dog with Behavior Problems - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/78/
9. Podcast Episode 247: Redefining Expertise In Dog Training And What Counts More Than Years Of Experience - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/247/
10. Podcast Episode 205: The Hidden World Of Reinforcement For Dogs And Why You Need To Know - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/205/
11. Podcast Episode 171: Dog Training With Layered Shaping: Why Classical Conditioning Must Come First - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/171/
12. YouTube Short: Prophet Selfie Trick - https://youtube.com/shorts/bCRbQeBCAu0?feature=share
13. Podcast Episode 69: Clicker Training: Will It Work For Every Dog? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/69/
14. YouTube Video: Susan Garrett's Target Stick Training for Dogs Part One - All About Targeting - https://youtu.be/MzePo7RSQu4
15. Podcast Episode 191: Get Your Dog To Calm Down With This Common Sense Protocol For Relaxation - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/191/
16. Podcast Episode 110: Is Your Over-Aroused Dog Just Over-Faced In Training? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/110/
17. Podcast Episode 89: Why Dogs Should Not Tug: The Truth Revealed - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/89/
18. Blog Post: 6 Keys to Shaping Behaviour - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2018/12/6-keys-to-shaping-behaviour/
19. Podcast Episode 151: How Location Specific Reinforcement Markers Will Improve Your Dog Training! - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/151/
20. Podcast Episode 144: Teach Your Dog To Listen No Matter What… Even If You Think They Are Stubborn - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/144/
21. Podcast Episode 184: Proofing Vs Generalizing In Dog Training To Grow Skills And Confidence - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/184/
22. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/Nx4kmQMTKW8
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What if I told you no matter where you were today in your dog training? |
| 0:03.4 | No matter if you're brand new to all of this or you've been doing it for a while but you're still |
| 0:07.8 | struggling or you're actually pretty darn good. |
| 0:10.6 | No matter where you are today with one small change, you could be on the fast track, exponentially |
| 0:17.7 | improving what you've got to a completely different level of understanding between |
| 0:22.5 | you and your dog. Sounds too good to be true. I know, but stick with me today because that's |
| 0:27.2 | what I have planned. |
| 0:43.7 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And today, I am going to be talking about shaping and why I believe this is the one small shift that you can make that will put you and your |
| 0:51.8 | dog on the fast track to learning. Listen, when I started |
| 0:54.6 | dog training, I used a lot of lures in my training, like probably many of you listening to this. |
| 1:00.5 | And in 1992, I was doing a lot of shaping behavior, but still luring to start or adding |
| 1:07.8 | lure as when I felt the situation needed it or the dog required it. All of that |
| 1:13.2 | started changing. But 1993, I really started phasing things out. And when my dog buzz came around |
| 1:19.7 | in 1996, I was doing nothing but shaping for every behavior that I was teaching him. Now, |
| 1:24.2 | listen, if you listen to podcast episode number five, and I think |
| 1:28.6 | it's one of the most important episodes of all the episodes that I put out here for you, |
| 1:33.1 | if you listen to podcast episode number five, go back and re-listen to it. Because I want you to know |
| 1:38.8 | there's a difference between shaping or free shaping what people call, like what I might call sometimes navel gazing, |
| 1:46.6 | just waiting for the dog to offer a behavior so that you could, you know, tell them that |
| 1:51.0 | was good and reinforce them, maybe click a clicker and reinforce them and then wait for them |
| 1:54.9 | to offer something else that was deemed spectacular. There's a big difference between |
| 1:59.8 | what I identified in that episode as |
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