In this video training tip, Janice explains how use leverage the dog’s dinner to level up your recall training.
This technique uses the concept of a “jackpot” for building the drive for your dog to want to come to you. The idea behind this is based on casinos – Researchers found that players are a lot more likely to keep playing or to come back and play if they had a “win” on one of their first playing experiences.
Now you won’t always be giving your dog a full dinner for coming back but… your dog will know that the possibility for a big payoff exists.
Remember – Reinforcement builds behaviour so even if your dog is doing amazing it helps to reinforce even basic behaviours sporadically. We want them to continue to think a “jackpot” is possible.
Ember shows the kind of recall you can achieve with planning your reinforcement.
We have a dog that can react to other dogs on leash. Do you provide online recall video only so he does not have to go to class
Hi Yvonne:
Thanks for your comment – we create the online version of the course for a lot of reasons some people will benefit from the online version of the course specifically because they don’t live locally or have difficult schedules etc. We also like that people can refresh their memory of all the great exercises over the course of a year. But… one of the reasons IS that reactive dogs still need training but a class setting may not be the best place for them.