Happy birthday Axel! Has he got any birthday presents? Also, 45kg!! Does he win the Biggest Lab on the Forum award? He looks absolutely perfect...
Good advice! I’ll make sure I am mixing it up. Because if it’s true that all the behaviours after the mark and before the treat are also...
Yes sorry that is what I meant - so for a stay and for a heel, you would consistently deliver in position so the dog expects that and knows not to...
Oh Stanley! So I guess you have some appliance round the house that is missing some of its plug? Hopefully you’ll find it and from that work out...
What do you mean by consistent with your reinforcers? Do you mean, for certain behaviours always deliver the treat in exactly the same way?...
Thanks! Yes, I don’t use my normal ‘yes’ mark (which has been trained to release) if I want her to stay in the same position - when I am heeling...
@Inky lab hope you don’t mind me asking a quick follow up question on this thread (seems us two have the same topics on our minds at the moment!)....
Excellent that has streamlined my cues no end. Thank you for your untiring help :)
Hooray! We may almost have achieved optimal poo :dogpoo:
Oh no Ripple. Are her ears hot? If so, she must sleep with daddy’s sock, ok? That will cool down her ears. And from now on she must eat more bin...
Haha when I am not dog-wrangling I am an academic so over-thinking is my job and it spills over into the rest of my life ;) ok thanks for...
Ok i think I’m almost there, sorry for all these questions! I think the final key question for me is this: (And now I realise that this thread...
Yes! Thanks that makes a lot of sense :) and I guess you don’t bother then marking the release too, you just chuck the reward after they have...
Thank you! Sorry just a few more questions...do you mean that you rarely release them to a treat already on the floor, but that you give the...
Ah ok I am getting clearer now - I think I realise what my specific confusion is, at least. I think the actual question is, should I just use my...
So if for example you’d told the dog to go lie on their bed and then at some point want to release them (without a treat), you’d use your ‘ok’...
Yes I think I misused the term release cue here for some of these. I have ‘yes’ for my mark which releases her but is always followed immediately...
Good boy Coco!
Ah yes sorry I am using the wrong term. I mean a signal from me that permits her to break a held position, either to go towards and take something...
That seems a lot more sensible and to be honest I am sure all mine are fairly interchangeable as far as the Pig is concerned. I was just worried...
