I gave the LAT game a try this afternoon on a whole bunch of things. Is it okay to do it on many different things in the same period?
Our neighbors were having their lawn cut so there was a huge/loud mower zipping by the fence so I hand Blaze on lead and clicker/treats ready. Mower's are something he's reactive to. He did very well and caught on extremely fast to the point where he wouldn't look at it till we/it got closer.
Next the neighbors came home while we were out in the driveway so we did some LAT while they were walking by. As I posted before, he's bad about running up to the fence and barking at people when they walk by then once he gets to the fence stopping and walking off.
Then we went walking down the road to a field and walking back and forth doing some LAT with cars. At first it took me clicking and saying 'here here!' in a peppy voice to get him to see I had a treat in hand but once he realized I still had a treat, he did look back at me each time I clicked.
I would also click/treat when I would say 'Blaze' and he would look back at me. This is something we've needed to start working on too.
Could I be confusing him by doing so many different things?
Also, this was our first session doing LAT, but whenever a car would go by, I would click/treat and he'd swing his head back at me, but then he would go straight back to looking at the car. Is this normal? I would immediantly click/treat again and then I started giving him the treat in the opposite direction of where the car was and holding the treat for just a second while he tried to eat it out of my hand. Is that the best thing to do? Click/treat, he looks back, click/treat again, etc.
Our neighbors were having their lawn cut so there was a huge/loud mower zipping by the fence so I hand Blaze on lead and clicker/treats ready. Mower's are something he's reactive to. He did very well and caught on extremely fast to the point where he wouldn't look at it till we/it got closer.
Next the neighbors came home while we were out in the driveway so we did some LAT while they were walking by. As I posted before, he's bad about running up to the fence and barking at people when they walk by then once he gets to the fence stopping and walking off.
Then we went walking down the road to a field and walking back and forth doing some LAT with cars. At first it took me clicking and saying 'here here!' in a peppy voice to get him to see I had a treat in hand but once he realized I still had a treat, he did look back at me each time I clicked.
I would also click/treat when I would say 'Blaze' and he would look back at me. This is something we've needed to start working on too.
Could I be confusing him by doing so many different things?
Also, this was our first session doing LAT, but whenever a car would go by, I would click/treat and he'd swing his head back at me, but then he would go straight back to looking at the car. Is this normal? I would immediantly click/treat again and then I started giving him the treat in the opposite direction of where the car was and holding the treat for just a second while he tried to eat it out of my hand. Is that the best thing to do? Click/treat, he looks back, click/treat again, etc.