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Magic Bait Bag & Clicker Fun
(J1Boss) wrote:
ick. a little respect would be nicer. What makes you think that food training automatically equals no respect? The keeper of the resources gets plenty of respect. The problem is that food isn't always available when a training opportunity comes up. Now I've solved that problem. --- Canine Action Dog Trainer http://www.canineaction.com It's A Dog's Life http://hometown.aol.com/dfrntdrums/m...age/index.html Get Healthy, Build Your Immune System, Lose Weight http://www.re-vita.net/dfrntdrums |
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Leah said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:
The problem is that food isn't always available when a training opportunity comes up. Rocky's primary treat is certainly food, but he certainly responds to a petting. Food is Friday's second favourite after tug. Since training or proofing situations usually crop up at the spur of the moment, I find it easier to not worry about which tools I have on hand, but work with those that I have in my pocket, so to speak. -- --Matt. Rocky's a Dog. |
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The girls are psyched. Mom is wearing FOOD.
Since I have begun competing, I have done the opposite. Even when I set out to train, sometimes the treats are somewhere else. When they earn the click/"yes", we run-run-run to the car or to the house to get a treat or toy. I've also taken to using some of their favorite tricks like barking and boinging as "treats" in the middle of serious training. And then there are always "air cookies" (and the way my girls gulp treats, I'm not sure they know they haven't gotten an actual treat! LOL!!) Susan Fraser, owned and trained by BeBop a Lu SheBop SH Shamma Lamma Ding Dong CD MH and Gris-Gris Gumbo YaYa http://mypeoplepc.com/members/chinch...densinthenews/ |
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Susan Fraser said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:
And then there are always "air cookies" (and the way my girls gulp treats, I'm not sure they know they haven't gotten an actual treat! LOL!!) Heh. Rocky gets those all the time. -- --Matt. Rocky's a Dog. |
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Matt wrote:
Since training or proofing situations usually crop up at the spur of the moment, I find it easier to not worry about which tools I have on hand, but work with those that I have in my pocket, so to speak. Funny you should say that, because I was about to go back up the thread, to where Leah said: The problem is that food isn't always available when a training opportunity comes up. Now I've solved that problem. and respond thusly: Ha. I solved that one long ago... right jeans pocket is for treats, left is for knife, Leatherman, money, and Chapstick. |
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"Sionnach" wrote in message ... Matt wrote: Since training or proofing situations usually crop up at the spur of the moment, I find it easier to not worry about which tools I have on hand, but work with those that I have in my pocket, so to speak. Funny you should say that, because I was about to go back up the thread, to where Leah said: The problem is that food isn't always available when a training opportunity comes up. Now I've solved that problem. and respond thusly: Ha. I solved that one long ago... right jeans pocket is for treats, left is for knife, Leatherman, money, and Chapstick. I have containers of dog treats all over the place, so long as there are places that the cat can't decide to reward the dog without my involvement. -- Emily Carroll http://www.fluttervale.com/kennel - Fluttervale Labradors http://www.fluttervale.com/biography - Canine Biography |
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"Melanie L Chang" wrote in message ... I have Leah killfiled so I didn't see the original post, but let me get this straight: she has just now discovered that there are such things as bait bags? Yes, that's pretty much the gist of it. She's also discovered that if she wears one around the house, she's got treats at her fingertips. -- Emily Carroll http://www.fluttervale.com/kennel - Fluttervale Labradors http://www.fluttervale.com/biography - Canine Biography |
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The problem is that food isn't always available when a training opportunity comes up. Now I've solved that problem. the problem is that you thnk food is the ONLY way to train, and maybe your dogs think so too. where does that leave you when you don't wear your bait bag. on the subject of bait bag, an obedience exhibitor complained about me as a steward several years ago. Since I don't have a place to put a purse while stewarding, I have a small purse that attaches to my belt. The exhibitor complained that her dog was too distracted by my "bait bag" (does anyone bait a dog with cash and credit cards and an inhaler?). when a dog is more focused on a bait bag than the handler, there are problems. Janet Boss http://bestfriendsdogobedience.com/ http://photos.yahoo.com/bestfriendsobedience |
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Sionnach said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:
The problem is that food isn't always available when a training opportunity comes up. Now I've solved that problem. [] Ha. I solved that one long ago... right jeans pocket is for treats, left is for knife, Leatherman, money, and Chapstick. Heh, you're organised! So, tell me which treat you can keep in your pocket that satisifies the following requirements: . not oily . doesn't desiccate because of pocketing . doesn't f*** up the laundry when I (always) forget to empty my pockets (liver jeans) I can pull praise out of my pocket at a moment's notice. Yeah, that sounds supercilious. While I usually have treats on a walk to proof recall or a tug toy for Friday when we do agility, I'm not overly concerned about being caught without a treat or toy. There are always options. -- --Matt. Rocky's a Dog. |
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