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09-21-2017, 04:47 PM | #31 | |
Action Jackson ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Maryland
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09-21-2017, 05:31 PM | #32 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Me, too! I'm a big fan of hers. And I've mentioned her and her book, The Loved Dog, and her methods in several posts about how to train and rehab dogs using positive reinforcement. She's awesome. Quite a history as an Israeli intelligence officer, where she saw the horrors of negative-reinforcement military dog training. Then she trained Ben Affleck, Kelly Ripa, Jon Stewart, Larry Kind, Oprah's dogs and became a dog-training celebrity in this country. Why use scary, off-putting or brutal methods when positive reinforcement works every time if the dog has been trained to automatically follow your requests or training commands? Tibbe was a scary door-darter when I first got him as he was almost feral, nippy, fighting me, screaming, panic attacks, scared of everything in the house as he'd spent the first 9 mos. of his life in a cage outdoors horribly neglected. And using only positive reinforcement and loads of patience, he's been trained to automatically do what I ask of him, knowing he'll always win that way. And Tibbe is all about winning and garnering praise, food 'paychecks'. But I honestly think he wants the praise party even more than he does the food treats. He'll just preen while I'm lauding his praises! So cute! I learned those methods back when I was a teenager from trial and error and they always work. Tibbe's been stopped mid-stride from chasing cats out of the front yard, stopped from leaving his front yard, and 99% of the things I ask of him the first time - all except always dropping food from his mouth. If I catch him in time, he'll drop it. If it's on it's way down, too late, haha! But he knows the big win, the great rewards he'll get for always doing what I ask is greater than any other rewards he might get from chasing a cat or running out the door, running off the front yard or swallowing whatever's in his mouth. He knows rather than that one bite, now he'll get serial treats and a happy party - a big win, with minutes upon minutes of praise and telling him how smart he is after we dance around celebrating his rapid response. He's learned to choose the big win involving me celebrating him over instant gratification of acting out.
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09-22-2017, 04:03 AM | #33 |
Resident Yorkie Nut Donating YT 20K Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas
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| Do any of you know about her online training course? I had never seen it before......just happened to run across it recently.
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09-22-2017, 04:04 AM | #34 |
Resident Yorkie Nut Donating YT 20K Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas
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| I actually first learned of her here on YT....Megan from Corpus had posted about her. I forget her user id .. have not seen her around for a few years.
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