Behavior chain and the Crate game

I constantly get non dog people talking about how "mean" im Iam to put my calm, sleeping, happy dog in a dog crate. Yeah. Theyre miserable. As this video shows.

Emma is training using almost entirely with positive reinforcement methods. All the behaviors you see are taught with food/praise/toys. But in this video I have NO food or toys in my hand. In fact I just stood up with the camera for this impromptu performance. She is participating in a FUN game WILLINGLY.
Positive reinforcement training is IMO "THE" way to get what you want from your dog and still have a relationship.

Emma is about 8 years old. She is a rescue and i've owned her less than two years. All these behaviors took about 5 mins to teach induvidually. Sorry about the jumpy camera. Also i mess up and give her a few funny cues (which are the couple spots she hesitates) its harder to look through a camera and give cues than i thought. All my fault. Not hers.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• behavior
• chain
• positive
• reinforcement
• dog
• crate
• training

[kikopup]

Wow that was awesome! Emma so smart! Really wonderful training too!

[VTECsqznN2O]

thank you! This dog is a dream to work with. Hope to do som' more elaborate stuff with her one day.

[dogtraining101today]

oooo the same trick as my dog at the end... I love it, nice positive training you have there.