Calmness around a person dribbling a soccer ball: Clicker Training Behavior Problems
www.pamsdogacademy.com This is an old video that I did and just forgot to release it to youtube. Bandit is not that food motivated but he is really into his toys and anyone else that has a toy. ESPECIALLY a BALL! I even have to spell Ball at my house. Hmmm, I have to spell a lot of things! We call the frisbee the “F-word”. This video is on how to get a dog to be calm around things that they find valuable. For Bandit it is a ball or the F-word, but for some dogs it might be other dogs or food. I have started proofing this behavior at the park, but have not gotten very good video footage. However, I will one day! Hope this helps someone! Have a great day! Pam & Bandit
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@suezn5 You might want to work on calm behaviors with out many distractions and then slowly build the distractions. Bandit can handle the soccer ball with one or two people at our house, at the park, but if there are a bunch of people playing soccer I have to move him pretty far away in order for him to be able to focus. So, if you start with other dogs, that might just be too much for her to handle. Also, when walking with other dogs create space in between so that she can focus.
@pamelamarxsen Thanks for your reply, Pamela. I’m relieved to hear Bandit gets to play ball and that I’m not doing something wrong letting my dog get excited when she plays. I’ll practice with her on getting calm, then releasing her to “go play” during her playtimes. She does that well when she is wrestling with her dog-friend, but can’t seem to achieve calmness when on the leash walking next to another dog. It’s hard to practice that when you don’t have a friend interested in dog training
@suezn5 Yes, I do let him play with all the “balls” he obsesses about. However, I want him to know that he can only go and play when I say, “go play”. He is a really great dog. I also just want him to be able to calm down and recover fast after he is overly excited about a toy that someone else has.
Another great training vid. Boy you can really see how hard that was for Bandit to resist going after that ball. You must have felt so proud of him. I posted this question on your other calmness vid tonight, too: Do you ever let him play with the ball or are the things that bring on that kind of excitement strictly off limits?
Wow! Well done Bandit!
@pamelamarxsen I loved teaching too and sharing my opinion on dog training. Some people met problems with their dogs and posted it on the forum and I will share my opinion with them. I also introduced clicker training to my friend and make a tutorial CD for my friend as she ask me how I train Xiao xiao some of the tricks. It makes me so happy when I help to solve the problems that other dog owners have.
@newbear95 You are welcome! I am so happy that I have helped you learn. I am a full time teacher and teaching is a passion for me. I just wish my students wanted to learn. haha! Some do.
Have a great day!
@pamelamarxsen Oh I see…… thanks for sharing your opinion with me. I learnt a lot from you and your videos. =)
@newbear95 So, it really would depend on the level of excitement that the other dog has toward toys. If you thought the game seemed calm and the dog was not fixating on the other item anymore, I would say it could work, but you would really have to observe the dog and make sure he was not getting over aroused. You do not want to trade over arousal for one item to over arousal onto another item. Calm is the key word. Make sure the dog is in fact calm.
Hope that helps!
@newbear95 Well, that is just it. I want to build calmness around toys and do not want him to think that when he sees a toy, that he will get to play. It is really hard because sometimes he will not eat either. He would rather play! If I am practicing in an environment that he is not ready for and he will not eat the food, I create more distance between us and the distractions until he can eat. Then work my way closer if I can. If I reward with a toy, then he would not be calm anymore.
Bandit is doing so well even though it is only the 2nd session. If a dog also have this same problem but is not willing to take the treats, is playing a calm tug game an alternative for using treats?
that looked like big challenge for Bandit. “I’ll take the yummy treats, but I really want that ball.”
…..being good, looking, sniffing, and just walking away when the dog would grown or lunge at her, by the end of the night she was following the dog around doing the play bow… it was a lil minpin mix dogy, my friend rescued… she was very cute but you could tell by her hiding, running away, and lunging at lilo that she was not very well sociallized whith her last owners… but i think it was a success as lilo did awesome and the new dogy was alot more relaxed by the end =)
ha! i was reading the discription. and that is just too funny. we too have to spell alot of things in our house, so lilo dont know. lol. like ball, frisbee(we too call the Fword lol) walks, park, beach…. man lilo knows A LOT of words. lol. but sence we have been doing the agility, she is sooo much more behaived. ahh and lastnight we had a new dog come over, she was very unsocialized, but lilo did great, a lil growly at first but then after i would just distract her and praise like mad for …
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