Surprise Party - Clicker Training: helping the reactive dog
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I rescued a border collie x whippet boy, who is now almost 2. I got him in March, and we've been working on his socialization problems. He lived in a yard 24/7 the first year of his life before being surrendered by his owners to a local shelter.
Dolce's a lover, but he's nervous with new/strange things. I've been watching kikopup, reading books, and experimenting with methods similar to the one shown in this video, but the step-by-step demo was vital! Thank you!
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@Appy2quarter Soon he learned that by not barking he could earn the opportunity possibly to play with the person or dog. :) If it was a piece of cheese on the ground, he could have it when he was not thinking CHEESE must have CHEESE and when he was not barking at it. :) I love how different all dogs are. They are just amazing animals! :)
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@Appy2quarter I think this method would work really well, because not only will you build a positive association to other things, the other things (distractions) will be a way to earn rewards and focus on you which will be great. :) Good Luck! My puppy used to bark at people, dogs and things he wanted as if his barking would magically make those things come to him. Funny how dogs think. :) So, with him, when he was not barking (if it was ok with person/dogs) I would let him go play. :)
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Really like this video - I have a very nervy mini schnauzer who just barks at everything! She is actually very friendly, loves dogs and likes people really but barks out of nerves. i'm going to use this method to build positive associations and hopefully stop the barking as it could get us in trouble!! Thank you for posting.
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i recently moved to Spain and there are an awful lot of wild cats strolling around everywhere- I thought Elliot would be fine with distractions on leash, but in fact I wasn't prepared for a severe case like this! Once I wasn't watching carefully enough and a cat passed by and he lunged and ripped the leash out of my fingers. Luckly neither the cat nor he were harmed, BUT he had gained a big reward (= chasing the cat) for his behaviour... Do you think this could also work with cats?
ElliotDMDS 5 months ago
@ElliotDMDS I'm sure it would work, but if I were you I would work on building calmness around cats. It would probably take awhile at seeing cats from a distance and then closer etc... I'm sure it would be difficult if the cats are just roaming free and all over. I would work on calmness & surprise party. Calm walking.... etc...
pamelamarxsen 5 months ago
@pamelamarxsen Thank you Pamela! I will go give it a try... too bad you cannot ask cats to stay/walk at a distance first ;) I might start on the balcony where he sometimes gets excited about watching the cats too. And then try it outside during the day- and the goal is calm walking when its dark and the most cats are roaming around...i guess this is going to be a hard one...
ElliotDMDS 5 months ago
@ElliotDMDS You are welcome! I was thinking that you could also ask for an alternate behavior. Eye contact, sit, down, walk the other way, but you are right it will be a challenge and take a lot of patience! :) Good Luck!
pamelamarxsen 5 months ago
@pamelamarxsen not making any progress... tried to work on an alternate behavior, when outside and surrounded by cats, and he actually is responsive, so he would lie down or sit if I tell him to do so, but without any eyecontact, he would then sit/lay but stay very excited and tense looking at the cats...don't think this is the behavior I should be rewarding...even back home he stays excited for a while afterwards before calming down again... how can I build calmness around cats?
ElliotDMDS 4 months ago
@ElliotDMDS I am sure that it is just too difficult to create distance from you and the cats. You are right that you should not reward him for his excited tense behavior. If you clicked him for a behavior around the cats, would he look at you? If he is able to look at you, then he can still at least think around the cats. You could just spend a lot of time out there by the cats and reward calmer and calmer behaviors.
pamelamarxsen 4 months ago