Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2013 22:58:40 GMT 2
How to teach the dog to not take food from the ground
Hi Nick,
Sorry for the late answer About how to teach the dog to not take food from the ground, I give you a tutorial of Emily Larlham
Another great tutorial made by Chirag Patel is to teach the dog to drop it, just in case the dog takes something from the ground and you do not want to open his mouth useing force with your hands :
This video takes a look at an alternative way of teaching a "drop" compared to the usual swapping based techniques. I have found it works really well. I woul...
As you can see in both tutorials, it is very important to make many exercises in many places, many situations and it is important to start with something the dog doesn't want very much. It is hard for him if you start to teach him to leave a bone with meat on it. Anyway, even if he learns very well, it is better to keep an eye on him if you are in an area full with garbadge.
If you don't use a clicker, you can say "yes" or any other short word, so the dog knows that the behaviour of looking at you when he sees food on the floor, it is the behaviour you want from him.
About this "Besides, some information about Negative reinforcement, especially - negative sides of this method of training."
I tell you in few words:
The negative sides of this method of training is that you have to start with a punishment P+, meaning that you add something the dog doesn't like, you keep the pain until the dog does what you asked and you remove the pain when he did the behaviour.
Example, you use a shock collar, you give pain and you ask the dog to sit. When the dog sits, you remove the pain. This way, the dogs learn to sits very quickly because he wants the pain to go away. Or, you start to shock the dog and in the same time you call him to you. When he is next to you, you remove the pain, you stop giving shock. This way, he learns to come quickly to you because he knows how to stop that shock, coming to you. This is a method that people use for sports, they want to make the dog to work with speed. But people who love their dogs, don't use this method. They know how to raise the criteria and train the dog to have speed and more speed useing positive reinforcement.
Look, one more example of R- I put you in a cold room, or cold water (this means I give you something you don't like) and I ask you to learn 50 English words. You will learn them quickly because you want to go out of the cold water. Tomorrow I put you in cold water and ask you to learn another 50 English words. When you finish learning them, I take you out of the cold water. And so on, in one month you will know English better than an american but you will never like the English language if this is the method I choose with you.