Fick ännu ett av Susan Garretts mail om "Being a Good Student".
Jag har "subscribat" på Susans nyhetsbrev där hon då och då brukar skriva och skicka ut olika tankar kring hundträning, specialerbjudande på hennes webbshop och lite andra saker. Läser även hennes blogg och den är riktigt bra med många tänkvärda åsikter om hundträning, tävlingspsykologi och mycket mycket mer :)
Hon är verkligen en otroligt duktig hundtränare/instruktör och en av mina främsta förebilder.
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Greetings all, welcome to the fifth installment in our series on "Being a Good Student."
Good Student Concept #5: Take responsibility for your dog's errors.
Remember our dogs are only a reflections of our abilities as a dog trainer. If the dog did not perform as expected you either didn't train it to fluency or you didn't handle with clarity.
Resist the temptation to be disappointed in or placing blame on the dog when things don't go as planned at home or in front of your instructor.
Dogs do what is reinforcing. There isn't anything more complex to their actions then that. If you trained a behavior in a way that demonstrated to the dog there is massive reinforcement for him for performing correctly -- the dog will do as expected.
If the competing value of NOT doing the behaviour has proven to be more reinforcing to the dog than actually doing the behaviour, the dog will very likely fail and chose to seek out his reinforcement elsewhere.
Again, not the dog's fault! It is a function of training. You need to understand the ranking of what is rewarding to your dog (see the exercise in my book Ruff Love on ranking reinforcement).
If leaving you to zoom around the room is more valuable to your dog than the bit of kibble you are using as a reward for the sit stay, there will always be a competition with that distraction for your dog while you are training.
The best way to over come this battle is to;
- Build value for behaviours first in a distraction free area. Perhaps you have over-faced your dog by trying to enter a trial too early or working in a seminar at a level beyond your dog's capabilities or with distractions too enticing to your dog's current training level.
- When training in the face of high distractions be certain your are using your dog's highest ranking reinforcement.
- Prevent access to any other reinforcement until you can be assure your dog has learned to love training with you. The more your dog rehearses leaving work to chase other dogs, visit people or just zoom around the ring, the more difficult it will be to convince your dog there are better sources of fun for him in life with you!
- Recognize that a dog choosing to leave work to seek out his own reinforcement is a rehearsed behaviour. If it is your desire to train your dog without the use of physical corrections (which it is ours) you must become a master of controlling that which reinforces the dog.
"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit." ~ Arnold H. Glasgow
"Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos." ~ Doug Coupland
"The highest result of education is tolerance." ~Helen Keller
Your circumstances are never as bleak as they may seem when you are in the depth of a moment of disappointment. If your dog is currently choosing distractions over you, be energized by the fact that your dog is a reflection of your ability so change is possible if first you change your current level of understanding.
Happy training everyone!
Susan Garrett
Say Yes Dog Training Inc
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