Your comment about how you gauge if he is subthreshold is the same for my guy. Not responding to the click.... back off, too close! So glad I found your videos!
Lovely video. Bonus points for the corgi. :) I often teach this in my classes to clients but it is awesome to have a video to e-mail them for a refresher if they forget what we did to work on reactivity. I saved this one!
Thanks for the feedback from both of you. When I was making the video I realized that it was just as instructive to see when things didn't go as hoped, and what to do about it (e.g. gain more distance if the dog is over threshold.)
I think Yoshi has improved so much since that last video clip and it's fantastic that you are able to identify his threshold and stay below that so he is comfortable.
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That's not clicker training. You're just feeding him! And you are giving him the treats even when he does it wrong.. You are just making the dog confused:(
I'm not sure what you mean. The inventor of the Look At That game and her former assistant have seen the video and approve. He's demoed Look At That at Control Unleashed workshops for over 100 people, and he certainly doesn't seem at all confused.
There is no wrong here, the goal of the training is to have the corgi look at the dogs, hear the clicker and reorient back to the trainer, expecting a treat. When the dog was over threshold and not responding to the clicker, the trainer backs off to where the corgi begins responding to the noise of the clicker and looking up for a treat. You don't understand clicker training.. The dog isn't supposed to whip its head back and forth, you are marking the dog looking at distractions positively
Yoshi's by no means out of the woods, but his issues have narrowed down to very specific things unknown dogs and also Sudden Environmental Changes like a new dog walking into class).
We started watching the class pre-CU at the class way up on the hill above the class probably 150' away and worked our way down progress was slow, but we had gotten much closer and then I read CU and we started
LAT. His attitude changed and then we could "walk among them" like you see in the video.
We even had Yoshi do a couple of runs which I didn't think I'd ever see again.
The way I can tell if Yoshi is relaxed is (1) is he willing to look away from the trigger to get his treat? (2) is he taking the treat politely (he's good about this for a Corgi) or is he chomping on my fingers too?
Since some folks are saying how relaxed he looks. He's relaxed in the first part as he knows the dogs (he's been watching that class for a couple of months now.) The second part he is not relaxed though eventually relaxed enough to go visit the other dogs (some not familiar to him), but, full disclosure, he did have a reactive temper tantrum then where he had to be carried off the stage just as I was taking him away from the group. I didn't see the details and we don't have it on film.
Your comment about how you gauge if he is subthreshold is the same for my guy. Not responding to the click.... back off, too close! So glad I found your videos!
klwycoff123 1 year ago
Lovely video. Bonus points for the corgi. :) I often teach this in my classes to clients but it is awesome to have a video to e-mail them for a refresher if they forget what we did to work on reactivity. I saved this one!
MagnoliaFly 1 year ago
wonderful vid, I've utilized the same technique, its nice that I had a video to reference before I started. Thank you for posting this :)
VTECsqznN2O 2 years ago
Great demo of LAT game. 5* and favorite. :-)
AnimalWalk 2 years ago
Thanks for the feedback from both of you. When I was making the video I realized that it was just as instructive to see when things didn't go as hoped, and what to do about it (e.g. gain more distance if the dog is over threshold.)
Ellen and Yoshi
ellenclary 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this! I have just begun the LAT game and was frustrated that occasionally my dog didn't seem to hear the clicker.
I failed to recognize that this means she's over threshold, so this gave me a great way to see what to do when doesn't seem to respond.
Thank you again!
distantearlymorning 3 years ago
I think Yoshi has improved so much since that last video clip and it's fantastic that you are able to identify his threshold and stay below that so he is comfortable.
Ashley & Kaine
hunkymonkeykaine 3 years ago
Okey, my fault. I didn't mean to be rude or anything.. I'm sure I just miss understood what I saw.. but beautiful dog by the way. Love corgies
anei90 3 years ago
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That's not clicker training. You're just feeding him! And you are giving him the treats even when he does it wrong.. You are just making the dog confused:(
anei90 3 years ago
I'm not sure what you mean. The inventor of the Look At That game and her former assistant have seen the video and approve. He's demoed Look At That at Control Unleashed workshops for over 100 people, and he certainly doesn't seem at all confused.
ellenclary 3 years ago 2
There is no wrong here, the goal of the training is to have the corgi look at the dogs, hear the clicker and reorient back to the trainer, expecting a treat. When the dog was over threshold and not responding to the clicker, the trainer backs off to where the corgi begins responding to the noise of the clicker and looking up for a treat. You don't understand clicker training.. The dog isn't supposed to whip its head back and forth, you are marking the dog looking at distractions positively
lizzieodonnell 2 years ago
(Read these comments in reverse order - sorry :)
Yoshi's by no means out of the woods, but his issues have narrowed down to very specific things unknown dogs and also Sudden Environmental Changes like a new dog walking into class).
ellenclary 3 years ago
We started watching the class pre-CU at the class way up on the hill above the class probably 150' away and worked our way down progress was slow, but we had gotten much closer and then I read CU and we started
LAT. His attitude changed and then we could "walk among them" like you see in the video.
We even had Yoshi do a couple of runs which I didn't think I'd ever see again.
ellenclary 3 years ago
The way I can tell if Yoshi is relaxed is (1) is he willing to look away from the trigger to get his treat? (2) is he taking the treat politely (he's good about this for a Corgi) or is he chomping on my fingers too?
ellenclary 3 years ago
Since some folks are saying how relaxed he looks. He's relaxed in the first part as he knows the dogs (he's been watching that class for a couple of months now.) The second part he is not relaxed though eventually relaxed enough to go visit the other dogs (some not familiar to him), but, full disclosure, he did have a reactive temper tantrum then where he had to be carried off the stage just as I was taking him away from the group. I didn't see the details and we don't have it on film.
ellenclary 3 years ago