Capturing Penelope's "sad face" (head down) behavior

This video shows the footage of how I captured Penelope's head down behavior and put it on "sad face" verbal cue.

I did this on the fly, no notes, no timer. However, data-driven training is very important and I do much of it. (Thanks Helix!)

Also, as noted in first frames of this video, this was the first (and the last) time I turned my attention away from the working dog and onto the waiting dog. Why is this so important?

Because when working more than one animal where one is working the other is waiting, the one in the limelight needs to feel 100% secure that it is his time to shine. The animals waiting need to learn to *patiently* wait their turn so they are not offering behaviors (other than calmly and quietly waiting their turn) hoping the trainer will reinforce.




By keeping the roles clear (working or waiting) the animals' stress is lowered and his ability to think and learn is higher. In other words, better training which is what we all want.

Anyway, Penelope caught on *super* fast and we added the verbal cue no problem.

Hope you enjoy and find it useful. Thanks for watching!

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Pets & Animals

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• Plumwood
• Posse
• Penelope
• clicker
• training
• SMART
• DOGS
• Dog
• Training
• Van
• Buren
• Arkansas
• dog
• sad
• face
• Mary
• Gilbreth

[kikopupextras]

:) I love Penelope's sad face!

[plumwoodposse]

@kikopupextras, hee hee, thanks Emily! :-)

[ireneblchua]

Enjoyed watching you trained your dogs. They are very calm, obedient & clever. Thanks for sharing :-)

[plumwoodposse]

@ireneblchua, hi Irene, glad you enjoyed it! thank you so much for watching and commenting!

[kikopup]

Lovely sad faces :)

[plumwoodposse]

@kikopup, thank you Emily :-)) and thanks for watching!!

[plumwoodposse]

@MultiAnimalcrackers Thanks Kath :-) Not boring...! Low is very clear and descriptive :-)) I shaped Geronimo's and am working on Piglet will try to film hers when I get back to it with her. Thanks so much for commenting!

[plumwoodposse]

@newbear95, thank you! :-) I agree, the behavior comes 100% from the dog! Happy Holidays!

[plumwoodposse]

@MsBorderCollieLover, thank you Katrina! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your crew too :-)!

[MsBorderCollieLover]

Wow great video, you should really make tutorial videos more often! I love capturing behaviors like this and you did such a fabulous job. your an amazing trainer and I'm so happy I found your video. I hope you and your dogs have a great Christmas and happy new year!