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Uploaded by on Feb 14, 2008

"How to teach a bomb proof stay- without using punishment"

This video is a response to Zak George's technique of teaching a stay. I just wanted to show people there IS a way to teach a dog ANYTHING you want to, without any form of intentional punishments, corrections, or intimidation.

Zak I LOVE LOVE LOVE your wonderful Frisbee dog videos, your dogs and your training is remarkable, but I've got to show that there is another way besides using corrections and punishment. That's what youtube's all about? People with different ways of doing stuff?

Rather than adding an extra cue "stay" I train the word "Sit" to mean keep sitting no matter what until I release you. Many trainers find it is much clearer than having a cue 'sit', AND 'sit stay'.

When I use the term "clicker training" I mean it in the sense that the trainer who coined the term meant it- a subset of operant conditioning (using only positive reinforcement, extinction, and negative punishment) Simply meaning_- using rewards, ignoring, and removing a good thing.

TRAIN IN SAFE ENVIRONMENTS, USE A TEATHERED LEASH TO MAKE SURE YOUR DOG NEVER GETS REINFORCED FOR GETTING UP!

The great thing about clicker training is that it's always the trainers fault if the animal is doing the behavior wrong. "You get what you click." If your dog is breaking a clicker trained stay, you've got to reassess YOUR timing, criteria, rate of reinforcement, and weather your reinforcer is in fact a reinforcer.

HAPPY TRAINING!

Splash! is 14 weeks in this video!

P.S. Guess what? It's not that simple! Now after you have proofed your dog on every distraction imaginable, you have to work on Distance and Duration! And then add the three together- Distance, Duration AND Distraction- THEN you will have a bomb proof stay!

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  • When are you going to redo this with proper sound? I need to learn. :(

  • Sorry! I want to redo the video, so yes... it might be a while.

  • I am so sad I cant hear anything except music :( Your commentary would be so valuable .. please Emily can you sort out the problem for all of us who are so keen to hear what you have to say? Yvonne

  • Sorry! Youtube blocked the sound because I had a couple seconds of a Cure song at the beginning. Lame. I learned my lesson. I will be redoing a lot of my videos.

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  • Eagerly awaiting the video with sound! =D

  • I cant make out what your saying because of the background music. is whats in the side bar the same thing you just said?

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  • I'm really

    Sad I can't hear you talk :(

  • I wish this had audio. :(

  • this is great actually.

  • If you're talking about the video I think you are, with the pitbull--

    I don't think that Zak communicating to the dog a boundary by placing his hand between the food and the dog's mouth and saying "no", in a very calm and gentle way mind you, can be called "punishment based". you need to effin chillax. there's nothing wrong with communicating rules and boundaries if you do it like he did, calmly and consistently.

  • Dogs are a product of nature, and in nature dogs communicate rules and boundaries to each other all the time. It is NOT punishment, merely communication--and just because he communicated a boundary, does not mean he was "intimidating" about it, or "punishing" the dog. In my opinion, he did a very good job at calmly correcting the dog by communicating a boundary he was not allowed to cross, and then reinforced the behavior with the clicker. So seriously, chillll.

  • do you have a video of steps to teach your dog to stay on a mat?

  • why no audio!?!?!??!? bah..

  • The annotation about the music makes the video hard to watch.

  • wow I love the music!!!

    You made it????

    How do I get a copy?

  • 5 stars for the new music.

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