My friend thought we would create this thread because she would need advice in two things:
1) When Lotta notices that my friend is going to start training her she gets very excited about it. Lotta has different ideas of what she should do than my friend does. Lotta behaves like she would like to play with my friend also after she has been playing with her toys. Then she wags her tail happily and also barks playfully. My friend usually does get Lotta to do things quite well. However, Lotta apparenlty doesn't know how to distinguish training sessions and play times from each other. How would my friend get Lotta to know when it's time to work? What kind of cues and signals would you give to the dog so that s/he would know that it's time to work?
2) Lotta is a young dog that isn't always able to concentrate on things she should be doing in training sessions when there are toys around. When my friend is teaching Lotta something new, she might do what she should be doing for some time but after few times she goes to play with her toys. Of course my friend would like to use play as a reward. We had discussed about them in our thread about take and drop. She had found a good tutorial of them. We can tell you later how well does it work with Lotta.
My friend would like to know how to get/teach Lotta to work with her although there are toys in the room. My friend lives in a small appartment alone with Lotta and her toys are/gets carried to the room where there is room to train her. In case someone suggests it, Lotta gets more excited about toys if my friend starts picking them up because Lotta thinks she is going to start playing with those toys with her. So, that gets her to behave by opposite ways than my friend would want her to. Lotta often follows my friend and she is often in the same room than my friend is. It's also so that Lotta may already be in the room where there's room to train her. So it would be difficult to start with no toys around. My friend would like to know how to get Lotta to concentrate on what she should be doing in training.
My friend has seen tutorials on how to teach the dog to work although there are distractions around. However, in many of those tutorials they talk only about how to teach the dog to work although there are people and/or animals around. One would imagine that it would be easier to teach the dog to work although there are toys around instead of people and/or animals.
My friend already knows that it probably takes a lot of time to teach this and that there are probably a lot of different kind of stages in this. This is not only about dog training, my friend is going to start doing something that consists of several stages and she would like to know what they are and what is the end result. So, this is what my friend would like to teach to Lotta:
Stage 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiMGJBxRtBw
My friend is already in the stage 1, since Lotta is naturally the kind of dog that often looks at his/her owner.
Stage 2: In the following tutorial Pamela Johnson says that she started the training inside the house but not how she started training. How should it be started?
Stage 3:
[YOUTUBE]VWEgD27sSN4[/YOUTUBE]
When my friend has gotten into the stage 3 in training, how should she continue? How many and what kind of following stages there are before the end behavior?
The end behavior:
There are toys lying around and Lotta is ignoring them. She is doing a trick and is concentrating on what my friend is asking her to do. She is able to work although there are toys around.
It probably takes a lot of time before my friend gets there.:rofl1:
1) When Lotta notices that my friend is going to start training her she gets very excited about it. Lotta has different ideas of what she should do than my friend does. Lotta behaves like she would like to play with my friend also after she has been playing with her toys. Then she wags her tail happily and also barks playfully. My friend usually does get Lotta to do things quite well. However, Lotta apparenlty doesn't know how to distinguish training sessions and play times from each other. How would my friend get Lotta to know when it's time to work? What kind of cues and signals would you give to the dog so that s/he would know that it's time to work?
2) Lotta is a young dog that isn't always able to concentrate on things she should be doing in training sessions when there are toys around. When my friend is teaching Lotta something new, she might do what she should be doing for some time but after few times she goes to play with her toys. Of course my friend would like to use play as a reward. We had discussed about them in our thread about take and drop. She had found a good tutorial of them. We can tell you later how well does it work with Lotta.
My friend would like to know how to get/teach Lotta to work with her although there are toys in the room. My friend lives in a small appartment alone with Lotta and her toys are/gets carried to the room where there is room to train her. In case someone suggests it, Lotta gets more excited about toys if my friend starts picking them up because Lotta thinks she is going to start playing with those toys with her. So, that gets her to behave by opposite ways than my friend would want her to. Lotta often follows my friend and she is often in the same room than my friend is. It's also so that Lotta may already be in the room where there's room to train her. So it would be difficult to start with no toys around. My friend would like to know how to get Lotta to concentrate on what she should be doing in training.
My friend has seen tutorials on how to teach the dog to work although there are distractions around. However, in many of those tutorials they talk only about how to teach the dog to work although there are people and/or animals around. One would imagine that it would be easier to teach the dog to work although there are toys around instead of people and/or animals.
My friend already knows that it probably takes a lot of time to teach this and that there are probably a lot of different kind of stages in this. This is not only about dog training, my friend is going to start doing something that consists of several stages and she would like to know what they are and what is the end result. So, this is what my friend would like to teach to Lotta:
Stage 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiMGJBxRtBw
My friend is already in the stage 1, since Lotta is naturally the kind of dog that often looks at his/her owner.
Stage 2: In the following tutorial Pamela Johnson says that she started the training inside the house but not how she started training. How should it be started?
Stage 3:
[YOUTUBE]VWEgD27sSN4[/YOUTUBE]
When my friend has gotten into the stage 3 in training, how should she continue? How many and what kind of following stages there are before the end behavior?
The end behavior:
There are toys lying around and Lotta is ignoring them. She is doing a trick and is concentrating on what my friend is asking her to do. She is able to work although there are toys around.
It probably takes a lot of time before my friend gets there.:rofl1: