When Pigs Fly!: Training Success With Impossible Dogs by Jane Killion

Author:Jane Killion [Killion, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Reference, Dogs, Pets, Training
ISBN: 9781929242443
Publisher: Dogwise
Published: 2007-06-22T00:00:00+00:00

Energize your dog’s behavior with hot reinforcers. Once you have the behavior and it is on cue, and your dog is performing correctly almost every single time at home in a neutral environment, you mix in hot reinforcers to create excitement about the behavior. Remember the slot machine and make yourself as unpredictable as possible. Here are some example of hot reinforcers and how I use them for specific dogs:

1. The Bull Terrier likes balls. It’s very easy to dispense this reinforcer because you can carry a ball with you in your pocket or bait pouch.

2. The Rhodesian Ridgeback likes lure coursing. Although you can’t carry a lure course in your pocket, you could carry some kind of lure on a string and run away like mad, dragging it behind you. Or maybe you are lucky and rich and you do have a lure course set up in your back yard with an assistant ready to start pulling the lure—you could release him to go chase it.

3. The Norwich Terrier likes to hunt down vermin. Even if you could carry a chipmunk in your pocket and present it to your terrier as a reinforcer, it would not be a very nice thing to do. You could get a furry toy on a string and drag it along the ground quickly in a convincing imitation of some small prey animal. By all means do not shove the toy in the dog’s face— pull it and shake it along the ground in an erratic pattern that mimics a small rodent running away from the dog. I do know some people who cut the tails off of road kill squirrels and use them as bait. I think I would have a hard time with this one on multiple grounds, (including and especially the possibility of disease or fleas), but I take it on faith that deadsquirrel-tails make great motivators.

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