(VICT) Re: other dogs question
- From: "Ann Edie" <annedie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:14:51 -0400
Hi, Martha,
Teaching shelter dogs basic companion skills is a great idea. It makes the
dogs that much more adoptable. And teaching the skills with the clicker
will be a real time saver for the volunteers and a true life saver for some
of the dogs. For many of them, it will be the first time any human spoke to
them in a way that they could understand, and a way that recognized their
intelligence and showed some respect for their wants and needs. So, go for
it! And I hope that you are going to teach the other volunteers to clicker
train as well.
The little dog training guide which we have recently been talking about here
would be a good tool for the volunteers to use while training the dogs.
It's concise and covers the basics of what a pet dog needs to know. You
will have to teach the volunteers how to introduce clicker training to the
dogs and give them the basics of the science of operant conditioning. Sandy
Foushee's Basic Clicker Training lessons from this list's archives is a
great resource for this training too.
Have fun, and let us know how it goes.
Best,
Ann
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martha Harris" <latinanewschic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 10:44 PM
Subject: (VICT) other dogs question
> Hi everyone,
> I am a college student, and I joined a community service fraternity, alpha
> fi omega. We need 30 service hours for our group, and one of the places we
> go is the local SPCA. Most of these dogs have no training. They don't know
> sit or down, and they definitely don't know how to walk nicely on leash
> because all of the people who went yesterday gave up after 15 minutes and
> just let the dogs run because their arms hurt from their pulling.
> I was thinking of doing clicker training with the dogs to teach them, sit,
> down, heal on leash and maybe some other basic obedience stuff, so their
> new people won't have a hard time and the pvolunteers can walk easier. Do
> you think this would help, or is it a bad idea?
> Thanks,
> Martha
>
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