Been a while since we've had a thread on it and I've restarted my efforts now I've finished university as have a bit more time.
Today I wanted to try start teaching Ale to stand and come to call. First I did a few reinforcements of he only gets a reward when he's not looking for a treat. Currently he turns his head away but I want to shape it so it stays straight but that's a lesson for another day.
Then thought I would work on stand. He got the hang of this straight away to the point where I could walk a few steps away and he wouldn't follow. Will have to see when I revisit this if that was just luck or if he fully understood what I was asking.
Then I tried getting him to come over to me. This needs work, I think he found the cue a little confusing, I was using the word 'here' and lowering my hand. Any step towards me got a click. Decided to try a different hand cue and made my hand a fist. I've done targeting with him before with my hand like this and suddenly he was happy to walk right over to me. I made sure I clicked before he touched my hand as I'm not looking for him to touch that more to understand the fist as the cue.
Anyway think it went really well, I might work on asking him not to turn his head away so much tomorrow.
Feel free to share any clicker training ir ideas you have!
Today I wanted to try start teaching Ale to stand and come to call. First I did a few reinforcements of he only gets a reward when he's not looking for a treat. Currently he turns his head away but I want to shape it so it stays straight but that's a lesson for another day.
Then thought I would work on stand. He got the hang of this straight away to the point where I could walk a few steps away and he wouldn't follow. Will have to see when I revisit this if that was just luck or if he fully understood what I was asking.
Then I tried getting him to come over to me. This needs work, I think he found the cue a little confusing, I was using the word 'here' and lowering my hand. Any step towards me got a click. Decided to try a different hand cue and made my hand a fist. I've done targeting with him before with my hand like this and suddenly he was happy to walk right over to me. I made sure I clicked before he touched my hand as I'm not looking for him to touch that more to understand the fist as the cue.
Anyway think it went really well, I might work on asking him not to turn his head away so much tomorrow.
Feel free to share any clicker training ir ideas you have!