Cool, I always like to know what other trainers think. :) I never think the dog is ever doing anything wrong. All trainers set different criteria for their training sessions, I totally respect that your criteria at that point in training might be higher than mine or different all together. :) P.S. It's not an ad for my training site, the link is my youtube site that I share FREE videos on. Making training videos is a hobby that I enjoy, being a art/media grad, combining two things I love.
I add criteria one at a time, when training a new behavior. This session is the first time Max has ever learned the concept "leave it". It is the first time a bagel has ever been in his path on the floor, perhaps the first time he's seen a bagel. I lowered the criteria to leaving the food, regardless of where his eyes were looking.
Later I would click for walking over the food without looking down at it. I wouldnt expect him to do that on the first go, that would be setting him up to fail. If I hadnt clicked him there, he probably would have thought to sniff or lick the bagel. Actually it was a mistake for him to walk on the bagel, he was so busy looking up that he didn't see it under him.
okay, just pointing out the facts. Your video is about 'leave it' not looking at food. Nothing more. If it were me I wouldn't put an example of a dog doing it wrong in a video as an ad for my training site. JMO.
Cool, I always like to know what other trainers think. :) I never think the dog is ever doing anything wrong. All trainers set different criteria for their training sessions, I totally respect that your criteria at that point in training might be higher than mine or different all together. :) P.S. It's not an ad for my training site, the link is my youtube site that I share FREE videos on. Making training videos is a hobby that I enjoy, being a art/media grad, combining two things I love.
kikopup 3 years ago
I add criteria one at a time, when training a new behavior. This session is the first time Max has ever learned the concept "leave it". It is the first time a bagel has ever been in his path on the floor, perhaps the first time he's seen a bagel. I lowered the criteria to leaving the food, regardless of where his eyes were looking.
kikopup 3 years ago
Take a look again at your timing. You clicked twice when he looked at the bagel, once when he looked at the biscotti.
zupamahn 3 years ago
Later I would click for walking over the food without looking down at it. I wouldnt expect him to do that on the first go, that would be setting him up to fail. If I hadnt clicked him there, he probably would have thought to sniff or lick the bagel. Actually it was a mistake for him to walk on the bagel, he was so busy looking up that he didn't see it under him.
kikopup 3 years ago
okay, just pointing out the facts. Your video is about 'leave it' not looking at food. Nothing more. If it were me I wouldn't put an example of a dog doing it wrong in a video as an ad for my training site. JMO.
zupamahn 3 years ago