Because people have specifically asked for unedited training sessions that include errors, here you go!
I am working on verbal cue discrimination with absolutely no physical prompts. This is reasonably challenging but he enjoys it, and it’s a fun thing to work on in a small space or when you don’t have a lot of time.
And as an interesting side note, the heavy emphasis on verbal cues in a few sessions made it much easier to add a new verbal cue to a different thing we’ve been working on (Spin). That suggests that if you want to strengthen your dog’s verbal ability, you do not have to practice the specific cues that you want to strengthen – instead, work on the “listening” part.
What kind of showing have you done with him? I don’t recall seeing any.
None – and I have no plans to show. Finished Cisu’s OTCH and that was the end of it for me. Now I train to see what there is to see.
“…if you want to strengthen your dog’s verbal ability, you do not have to practice the specific cues that you want to strengthen –instead, work on the “listening” part.” Oh dear, this isn’t clear to me ! I can use just verbal to ask for a position, but what am I going to “listen” to ? Thank you !
Your dog is going to practice listening for cues – you’re the giver :).
Training to see what there is to see! Bravo!
How do you train the behavior that you are telling him to do ? I understand you are now working on listening.
that’s a huge question and it depends on what you are trying to teach! I might use shaping, or luring or capturing. If you really want to learn more, take a look at this online class that is starting on October 1st – enrollment opened today:
https://fenzidogsportsacademy.com/index.php/courses/9717