(VICT) Re: questions from a friend about her guide dog
- From: "DIANNE B. PHELPS AND PRIMROSE" <d.bphelps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:02:21 -0800
t makes good sense to me. I am really enjoying the new techniques in my work
with Hibiscus. Primrose still takes a combination of things, but she is
doing fine. I definitely like the more positive approach to doing this. I
really do.
Dianne, Hibiscus, and Primrose
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Subject: (VICT) Re: questions from a friend about her guide dog
> In a message dated 12/13/2008 2:21:21 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> d.bphelps@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> I am wondering, however, how taking a dog who is used to the old
> techniques
> and trying to acquire a positive outcome with the new clicker techniques
> can be effective toward the outcome desired?
>
>
>
> It does work. You will have to overcome some of the dogs previous training
> though.. In the past you have consistently trained a dog to not do
> something.
> Everytime you gave a correction you stopped a behavior you didn't want.
> The
> more effectively you did this, the more behaviors you inhibited. The more
> times you do this , the less your dog is willing to offer something new.
> After
> all, he doesn't know if it will earn a correction, so it is safer to not
> offer
> it..think about it, if you were zapped for every word you didn't
> pronounce
> right in a foreign language, would you continue to offer new words or
> stick to
> the few words you were able to say right? Unless there were other built
> in
> rewards, you wouldnt. Even if you did , it might be pretty hesitant at
> first... That's where the dogs that have been correction trained are. If
> the rules
> then arbitrarily changed and you were given rewards for every new word
> you
> tried, it could still be slow at first, because you would still worry
> about the
> rule arbitrarily changing back. And then you would be zapped big time..
> This
> change does vary among dogs and people, due to other personality issues
> and
> their general natures.. a more trusting outgoing dog might be willing to
> accept that the new conditions are more permanent than a more reserved,
> fearful
> dog. The longer a dog has played in the correction system, the more they
> are
> likely to stay in that mode, after all, it has worked all this time for
> them
> already, why change now, they think..Yet, as with people, there are
> always
> those who embrace something new, with such abandon and exuberance that
> it just
> amazes those around them..
> does that help explain it?
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