(VICT) Re: training success
- From: "Julie J." <jlcrane@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:47:26 -0600
How wonderful for her!
I'm happy for you both!
Julie
http://www.livingblind.com/eml
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Pawpower Pack" <pawpower@xxxxxxx>
To: <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:04 PM
Subject: (VICT) training success
> I've written here many, many moons ago about my now retired ten-year-old
> dog Bristol. Bristol was program trained with corrections. I have been
> trying to teach her to retrieve for years. Her puppy raisers must have
> put the fear of god into her because she exhibits several signs of stress
> even when I use positive methods. She will never voluntarily take
> something from my hand, and I have tried everything in the book. The up
> side to this, I guess, has been that she has never put her mouth on
> anything that wasn't strictly hers but honestly, I'd rather have a dog who
> maybe puts her mouth on things that I'd rather not or even put teeth marks
> in things and be able to teach her using positive methods than a dog who
> is so afraid that she won't touch anything. I really feel bad for
> Bristol'; look up learned helplessness in the dictionary and you'll see
> her smiling face.
> Tonight I was doing work with Mill'E, my five-year-old golden and at the
> end I was closing my bait bag and tossing it around the room because that
> is one of her favorite games ever. I noticed Bristol becoming really
> interested in this game I was playing with Mill'E. I put Mill'E on a down
> stay, and tossed the bait bag after closing it tightly.
> I didn't say a word, and Bristol hesitatingly walked over and stared at
> the bag. She looked and looked and looked at me and looked at the bag. I
> didn't say a word just made happy faces, and what do you know, she picked
> it up and brought it to me. I practically squeezed her to death. I
> tossed it a couple more times and then called it good. I also was doing
> hand targeting with her and she is starting to follow my hand around. It
> took forever for her to understand the click and to really dare to try and
> do behaviors that were different.
> I know this is a small thing but honestly I am proud of my old lady.
> We'll keep working at it. I am not training it as a service task but I'm
> hopefully showing her that she doesn't need to be afraid of trying new
> things.
>
> Oh and I'm teaching Mill'E to wave; this is fun!
> I love operant conditioning!
>
> Rox and the Kitchen Bitches
> Bristol, Gracy, Mill'E
> "Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it,
> and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of
> existence." ---Mourning
> Dove [Christine Quintasket] (1888-1936) Salish
> Pawpower@xxxxxxx
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> AIM: brissysgirl
>
>
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