Widget test
by Kay Laurence | Jun 6, 2022
Widget test
by Kay Laurence | Jun 6, 2022
Essential for whom?
Are we just making dogs compliant for people or should we give more consideration to what is going to be beneficial for that dog, living in that lifestyle and an uncertain future?
Key Reading
What’s Cooking? A Warning About Recipes
Don’t Let Them Learn
Becoming aware that we share our lives with premier learners, dogs, is about saving you frustration, despair, anxiety and endless hours further down the road.
And Why Can’t He Refuse?
I bristle at the insistence that a dog will assent to any request we make if they understand what we’re asking and if the rewards we offer are of sufficient value
Dogs are Born To Learn
We can build tremendous learners when we get beyond the idea that “dogs are trained”.
It’s Not Training
A carefully planned learning pathway, paced to suit that particular learner for their life ahead.
Ethos: A Personal Trust Pilot
Experience changes our ethos. There are many pathways that will broaden our choices.
The Answers Await Discovery
The idea that we’re responsible for our dogs’ learning might well seem strange when we consider how we conceptualise “training:”
Science Doesn’t Have All the Answers
We lean on science in our efforts to bridge the gap as though it provides the answers to how things should be rather than describing how things are understood.
The Spaces Between
At the heart of learner-centred education, the teacher acts as a guide whose role is to elicit rather than to impart, and learners quickly become empowered and equipped to transfer their knowledge and skills to new scenarios.
In praise of naughty dogs
.. a desire for solutions to problems that weren’t problems until someone else outside of the relationship suggested they were.
Top Training
Evidence of learning
When we use the words “teach” or “train” child, person or dog, the operative term implies that the process is under the ownership of the teacher or trainer. What your teacher thinks you have learned may not be what you actually learned.
One dog watching
The other dog working
or ….how to train the spectators to quietly rest and watch whilst you work, play, teach a single member of the group
The Power of Passive Learning
Active learning: the learner takes active choice of what to do, how to respond, is attentive and making conscious effort
Passive learning: little conscious effort, reward is delivered for minimum effort.
A Day of Learning
A no-training day does not mean he gets a lazy day lying idly in the sun. Learning is still happening and this is significant and important for his development.
Surprising Puppy
Surprising Puppy. With obnoxious moments. After introducing the obnoxious puppy as a youngster I am knocked over by the Delightful Young Man he is turning into……
Obnoxious Puppy
The delight of your new puppy is probably going to last a few weeks, maybe four if you are lucky. When 12 weeks old hits, and you will feel a slam, the Delight is going to demonstrate ungrateful, obnoxious traits.
Preparation
Preparing before you train and the final check list
More than words
We expect our dogs to understand the meaning of words and signals, but if you have ever worked with computers you will know that what you say doesn’t always turn into an actionable response.
Not all lures contain food
“the direct use of the reinforcer to elicit the behaviour”
This should always be foremost in our mind, in that many alternatives lures are available.
Remote lures
Lures at a distance, separated from hands, pockets . Using reward stations, patterns, containers