that annoying clicking sound is not needed to train a dog, anyway you should get rid of it and learn to train your dog just by your posture without any words, she has your attention so the clicking is not needed, labs and food = always success, now show all without food !! and give a treat after all without words , next level training ... Good Luck with the challenge
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Molly is doing good, thank you - I can't believe she will be 7 next month! She also has a new little sister too, a 1 year old Goldador called Pontiac. I may see if I can gather some vids together from over the last few years to upload sometime ^_^
Thank you! I had a snack rapper and looked at my dog and jokingly said “go put that in the trash for me” lol, but then i was like, what if she actually could? My dog is very food motivated, so i grabbed some bread and was trying to show her how it looks to put trash in the can (i just showed her me dropping it in) and gave her a treat every time i did. I can see now how that may confuse her cuz she probably thinks the objective is for ME to do it 😂, i would try to get her to grab the rapper and she would a little bit but would just spit it out. She doesnt play with toys much anymore, so how do u get them to grab things?
Heya Foxi, thanks for watching and trying it our with your pupper. Ok, so I think what you need to do before getting her to put actual wrappers etc.. in the trash, is to get her to do it with items you know she will hold first, so that she can learn the basic concept and understand what the action is you are wanting her to do. Some dogs can be fussy with what they pick up / hold. My Lab Molly is, that's why I started with her ball (her favourite thing) as I knew she would hold that whereas I knew she would just spit paper or a wrapper out pretty quick. Think if there is anything you know she would hold, even if it's a toy she doesn't really play with, all you need is for her to atleast hold it for a few moments. Being food motivated is definitely very useful for keeping them engaged and easy to reward. Try with just luring her head slightly into the thing you want her to put things in first, then add an item to put in after she gets that. This can take some time so try to be patient and practice over a few sessions if it's taking some time. Once you have her able to put things she doesn't mind holding in there, you can work on the wrappers and other trash items afterwards. Work on each thing one at a time. So if she will just put her mouth around the item but not take it/hold, praise and reward. Keep doing that and eventually she may hold it herself for a couple seconds. Praise and reward. give her a Hold It type of command as she does this so she starts to understand what that means. Once she has the item in her mouth and holding for a few seconds, you could also try saying Wait or similar holding/staying command to try and get her to keep holding it for longer. Keep working on it - Honestly this can take quite a while to perfect. Molly picked this up within 45 mins getting her ball in the bin, and then a bit extra to work on paper in the bin, but then I decided I wanted to put our cartons, pots, trays, card etc... in our recycling bin (which is a taller plastic bin) and that took quite some time to perfect, starting with me having to walk down to the bin with her and semi-helping her out by holding it near/over the bin, to just walking down with her and she would do it herself, to eventually now saying to her 'Put it in the bin' and I can stand and watch from the doorway a few metres away and she will go do it on her own. It just takes consistent practice. Hope this might be helpful, let me know how it goes :)
They are such smart dogs and make training look easy most of the time! haha I love how much training can contribute towards bonding and and better understanding of communication between each other too.
