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08-17-2011, 06:43 PM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Hafnafjörður, Iceland , North Europe
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| How do you raise your yorkie ? I was wondering , how do you all raise your yorkies ? What methods do you use? Do you use positive training? (never scold or ban just don't give attention if not behaved correctly, wait until he does the right thing and then reward him) Cesar Milan methods ? Negative training ? (scold and ban very much, little as none rewards just say no if bad and do nothing if the dog does right). Or some other?? With Fido, I use very much rewards (both just saying nice things to him when he's good, give him treats or play with him as a reward), and when he's bad I say ''NO!'' to him and ''Bad boy!'' , not more than that most often I don't like using much negative training it just makes him scared he knows what NO means. Don't want bad comments about this but I use a little bit of the Cesar Milan methods, but mostly just the way he teaches dogs to heel (it worked for Fido, and 3 other dogs I know very well !) and I use the alpha roll cause Fido has 1 behavioral problem ,if he for an example eats the food from the cat without me knowing and I'm going to stop him, he growls at me and does whatever to keep eating the cat food the only thing that works to snap him out of that state of mind is using the Alpha roll, without that he had probably bitten me ! But I can snap him out of that kind of behavior right away with using the alpha roll, I also use it correctly he knows he's suppose to lay on his side. Fido is much better with his problem now than before I started using the alpha roll and it's almost gone away I'm always giving Fido some treats , saying kind words to him (don't remember what it's called) , I don't ban him things often so I use more of a positive training than the other two.
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08-17-2011, 06:49 PM | #2 |
I ♥ Armani & Chloe Donating Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Upstate NY
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| I use positive training- but they no what "no!" and "enough!" mean. For "fun" things I am training I only use positive methods- for example why scold them for not rolling over or something, when it really serves no purpose except to entertain us. However, for something more serious like not running out the door, or not fighting with each other, I will tell them NO- because those are important things for them to know for their own safety.
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08-17-2011, 07:30 PM | #3 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| Same here, positive reinforcement, but the boys know "no" and "enough" and "uh uh uh."
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08-17-2011, 07:43 PM | #4 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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| Callie is potty trained and everything so when we do any trick training or teaching her something new which is mostly tricks its positive with a treat but if she is doing something bad she knows what "No" means and stops what she is doing.
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08-17-2011, 07:52 PM | #5 |
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| We have always use positive reinforcement with Louie and the dogs we have had. Louie does no what "no" Stop that" and enough" means. It has always worked for us.
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08-18-2011, 03:37 AM | #6 |
Owned by Bella & Tibbs Donating Member | I do the same as everyone has posted!
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08-18-2011, 04:33 AM | #7 |
YT Addict Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Manhattan, NY
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| This is interesting, I hadn't thought about using something other than positive reinforcement and No when he does something bad... i haven't gotten my puppy yet, he should be here soon but I just was curious to see what this thread was about. |
08-18-2011, 05:41 AM | #8 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Hafnafjörður, Iceland , North Europe
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| Nice I like positive training the best. I had a friend once why NEVER used any positive training or methods on her dogs, she had 3 dogs, she used negative training as I call it, was always scolding her dogs and banning them things but they weren't even doing anything ! That is SO wrong. Poor dogs where so scared of her, 1 even bit her few times (like on that, he was just showing her what she had been doing to him for years !).
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08-18-2011, 06:00 AM | #9 |
I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | Most of my training with Joey has been positive reinforcement and the reinforcer is food, but I like to use other types of reinforcement such as praise, and I even try to emulate Cesar’s "calm alpha state" but I’m not a natural. I’ve took Cesar’s advice and made Joey sit before I placed the bowl down, and now we don’t have food fights when my sons’ dogs are visiting.
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08-18-2011, 06:11 AM | #10 |
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| A combination of both! Positive training with lots of praise and a treat for desireable behaviours like going potty on her pad, sitting, staying, etc. Negative, a firm no followed by ignoring for for a minute or two when she was displaying negative puppy behaviours like biting hands, and wouldn't be distracted from biting, even when given a toy to bite. Both are excellent teaching tools when used appropriately.
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08-18-2011, 07:14 AM | #11 |
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| Pretty much positive training and I like to say I use relationship-based methods. I suppose it's kind of a "new" way of teaching. I consider him a friend, or a student, and I am like his teacher. I'm not above him, we're equal partners, but I am just helping expand his mind. He understands "no" and "leave it" and "stay" are serious business (however, these were all taught using positive reinforcement methods). We use the clicker for a lot of things. So I use positive reinforcement combined with positive punishment (i.e. a reward is withheld for doing something wrong).
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08-18-2011, 08:03 AM | #12 |
YT Addict Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: San Diego
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| Positive training used here too. I'm personally not much of a fan of Ceasar's methods. We reward the behaviors we want with treats, attention, and lots of praise and discourage undesired behavior with 'uh uh', ignoring/no attention, or also redirecting to a desired behavior. I've found it very easy to teach desired behavior this way but sometimes we struggle to get rid of the undesired behaviors as fast as we might like. lol I really look at training as a process of building trust and a common language for communicating with each other. |
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