Dog Training Tip of the Day- Excitement over food

This is my dog training tip of the day. How to build calmness in your dog using their meal.

If you think in the terms that you are training your dog 100% of the time, every reinforcement you give your dog or the environment gives your dog, is building some behavior or emotional state. What behavior and emotional state are you building every time you put your dogs food bowl down. Are you building calmness or are you building arousal?

You have to feed your dog every day, you might as well capture the behaviors you like and use that meal to its fullest to create a happy calm and well adjusted companion.

Teaching your dog to settle-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2oeOUZ8kls&feature=channel_page

This tip should get you thinking about other times you reward arousal in your dog without thinking about it.




Coming up on Dogmantics will be an episode on Pit Bulls as well as an episode on how to get your dog to stop barking!

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[dogscatskp]

Hi Emily

I was actually wondering if you've made the episode for Dogmantics on Pit Bulls yet? Love everything you do:))

Karen

[kikopup]

I took tooo much footage!!! its taking forever to edit into something small for youtube. I am going tomorrow to film a quick video on loose leash walking with a pitbull, that should be on youtube sooner than the dogmantics episode.

[bjornar83]

Everybody who knows dog psychology says that excitement is negative for the dog. But as you say, for us it seems like the dog is really happy when it's jumping around like crazy.

What is it that makes excitement negative for a dog? What if the dog is wagging it's tail when he sees that you prepare food, or if it sits down looking really concentrated at you when you do it? Is this considered some kind of stress for the dog? Should a dog always be totally calm to be happy?

[kikopup]

If you think in terms of reinforcement... behaviors that are reinforced increase, so a 'hyper active' dog might not actually genetically be 'hyper active', the owner just kept reinforcing the dog and increasing the dogs likeliness to be more and more hyper, the dog is not consciously choosing to be that way, neuron connections have been formed in the dogs brain from behaviors the owner 'chose' to reinforce.

[kikopup]

You could build calmness to the degree that you want. I for example, have dogs that are calm enough around food, so I can work on complex tricks without them just staring at the food, or spinning and jumping. But not too calm that they are not motivated enough to do high energy tricks. I actually myself will do exercises to build arousal on food with my dogs. There are owners who will want to build calmness and others who will want to build arousal... depending on how the dog is at this point

[trishylala]

i have watched every single video you have here... all in one day!!! i love the method you use, i love the relationship you have with your beautiful pups, you are amazing!!! my 10 month old yorkie/poodle mix has been clicker training for a month, and just today rambo learned 2 new ones. crossing his paws and weaving through my legs!!! you are fantastic. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

[psykhimlen]

@gillianbyrne Maybe you could try to do the exact opposite, make the food (a little more) fun instead of calm. The dog I have at the moment had the same issue before (I did not have him at the time though). Don't make the same mistake my boyfriend and his parents did though, now he's so crazy about food its ridiculus. Training with food has proved to be a HUGE struggle for me now. (I want to exchange the old-school intimidation technique they've used to clicking)

[StLCardsGuy]

There is no better trained dog than a service dog.

[dehbee]

i have the exact opposite problem. 

[gillianbyrne]

do you know how i could build excitement over food? my dog is a rescue and is really shy around his food and it takes forever to get him to eat. i find he eats more readily when he is a little more aroused like if a friend comes over.

[whereartthouart]

Great video thanks for posting

[Reedynn]

Thanks for schooling folks who need it!! 5 Stars!!

[guard909]

hey

[koitsme]

Another one that I love!!

[mytonprop]

try to prepare you food 1st and let the dog see you do this,,make sure you eat 1st then only once the dog is calm and backed away from their food you can feed them,,,border collies are generally very clever and learn quickly but can learn bad habbits as well as good habits quickly too so be consistant with them ,,and good luck

[horsescatsdogs]

So, so true that it's not fair for them to be in that state of arousal every day for their dinner. Fantastic video. :)