How?
Devil Dog is doing his bronze award. Unfortunately the class he is going to favour leash corrections above anything else, they get a treat for doing it right and a correction for doing it wrong
I really do not want to give my dog leash corrections, so I am determined he knows his homework inside out before next week. Sit we've had down for years, same with down, wait is reasonable, we've just been able to cue 'leave it' during our first session, so I am confident he will pick that up by Wednesday.
Stand we are having trouble with. He loves his clicker, he loves getting clicks, he likes the clicks better than the treats. He is determined to earn clicks no matter what. All of this is excellent of course, except when learning new things.
Stand for instance, if I give the cue for sit, he sits, gets his click and gets his treat, he stays in sit even though the release cue is the click. I wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for a stand to click, eventually he realises I want a different behaviour and so he lays, we don't click this. He still lays and lays and lays and lays and lays. I walk away to try and get a stand, we might be practising wait, so he waits, while laying (wait now has a cue) I throw a treat on the floor to try and get him to stand, we might be doing leave it, so he leaves it, while laying.
I try and lure him into a stand with a treat, he still lays, I am not sure what he thinks we might be practising at this point. I hide the clicker behind my back and pretend to turn away hoping that he will think it's game over and stand to go about normal business, nope, he still lays determined he will earn a click, I step towards him in the hope that invading his space will get a stand from him, nope he stays in lay.
How the hell do I get a stand? the training manual I was given says to man handle him into a stand, I don't want to do this, do I? There must be a better way where he chooses to stand and gets his click.
At the this rate he is going to spend the entire class laying down, which will be great for leave it and wait, not so much for stand and heal
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Clicker training "stand" from a sit or down?
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D0oinMeCleanin · 15/10/2012 11:26
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