BAT Dog Training on a Walk

This is a sample of how you might use Behavior Adjustment Training with a fearful dog on a walk. While Peanut is pretty much fine with adult humans, kids are still a challenge, and harder to find as volunteers. So we use BAT on walks whenever we see kids.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• behavior
• adjustment
• training
• dog
• bat
• ahimsa
• seattle
• doggiezen
• peanut
• grisha

[hovawartvomsonnen]

I see a lot of lip licks and ears back. So to me the dog looks pretty stressed. Is that okay? Or should it be more positive for the dog?

[ahimsadog]

@hovawartvomsonnen Good question and good for you for noticing. I have considered taking this video down because of this, because it might make people push their dog too far. I should not have let Peanut go so close to the kids for this video, because his body language does show that he's nervous. My excuse is that I was filming and training at the same time. :)

[ahimsadog]

The yahoo group is now called FunctionalRewards and you can get there by going to functionalrewards d o t com

[mipawsitivestart]

How beautiful to see a dog being "heard" - instead of "whispered" to. Very cool how you keep everything so relaxed & light.

[pitzncatz]

very nice work!