(VICT) Re: training success
- From: "Tamara Smith-Kinney" <tamara.8024@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:11:34 -0800
Woo hoo! Good job on teaching your old dog new tricks and improving her
inner life, as well.
Tami Smith-Kinney
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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=20
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