I need a little help with this trick.
So far I have Bamm picking the object up as you can see in this video:
YouTube - Bamm- Trick in progress‏
The next step is I need to work on him holding it for longer periods of time. The problem is he wont hold it for more than a second or two without dropping it because he's used to me clicking at that point. We've only been working on this for about 2 sessions so far. I tried not clicking until he's had it in his mouth an extra second or two, but he wont hold it in his mouth long enough. He'll just drop it and pick it up again, drop it and pick it up again hoping I'll click.
Here's what I ultimately have in mind for this trick:
1) I want him to be able to hold the object in his mouth when I say pick it up and not drop it until I give a release command
2) Eventually we're going to do the same thing with other objects and ultimately I want to branch it off into a "stack the food bowls" trick and a "stack the orange cones"
So... how can I encourage him to hold it longer?
So far I have Bamm picking the object up as you can see in this video:
YouTube - Bamm- Trick in progress‏
The next step is I need to work on him holding it for longer periods of time. The problem is he wont hold it for more than a second or two without dropping it because he's used to me clicking at that point. We've only been working on this for about 2 sessions so far. I tried not clicking until he's had it in his mouth an extra second or two, but he wont hold it in his mouth long enough. He'll just drop it and pick it up again, drop it and pick it up again hoping I'll click.
Here's what I ultimately have in mind for this trick:
1) I want him to be able to hold the object in his mouth when I say pick it up and not drop it until I give a release command
2) Eventually we're going to do the same thing with other objects and ultimately I want to branch it off into a "stack the food bowls" trick and a "stack the orange cones"
So... how can I encourage him to hold it longer?