Pages

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Great progress with Darwin.

Eva is really into training us with the clicker (shaping).
At the beginning it was tough because we didnt know what to do so there was not movement so ever, but now it seems that we are getting there!
Look this video and the comments from Silvia:


Great progress, now he is actually offering behaviours and trying things! I loved the part when you sit on the floor, he is offering very good circling there! When you stand up, you still tend to help with a hand and that just distracts him, let’s try to do that trick with you sitting on the ground and rewarding just as you did when you were actually trying to get 2on2off :) Let him do the job and then just reach in with a hand very quickly to reward, without keeping it there to lure :) To avoid the confusion with 2on2off, work on those two tricks in two separate sessions for now and with two different objects. Still, some confusion is no big deal, in that confusion, I see more initiative and offering from Darwin as I’ve ever seen before, so I wouldn’t worry about it. That second part was really just great, loved the circling and loved how he is searching for an object with hind foot. You can click that lifting of one foot and put it on a different cue, it’s a cute “pee” trick! Great job!

2 comments:

  1. Many thanks for recently following our blog!

    Love your header photo - fabulous!

    Glad to hear the training is going well!

    take care
    Clive and Murray

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hello! We are in the 2nd silvia trkman puppy class. Just wanted to say hi and that your puppers is super cute!

    ReplyDelete