I agree with your explanation for " good " marker, earlier i was using good marker that way while playing, and after that when i was training him he thinks that "good" means play and breaks positions on that cue.
Can you explain the pops on the prong when you say “down” and he’s already down. Are you using the pressure as positive reinforcement? My Aussie goes down but very slow and offer gets back up.
quick question , i have a german sheperd of about year and 6 months, never trained but raised around a family and is pretty well disciplined in somethings but is super aggressive outside the house, is it too late to train her ?
I’m going to start with I am not a trainer. I do have two gsds, one was 2.5 when I got her she is now just over 3 and she was extremely reactive which her previous owner thought was flat out aggression. I muzzle trained her as a precaution and started taking her everywhere pets were allowed to go, I did not let people pet for the first bit and we avoided contact with other animals but she knew they were there and after a lot of time, patience, correction and treats we were able to begin having interactions with other dogs and now we have a 2 year old gsd who came to us a couple weeks ago. It is so not too late you’ll just have to help build confidence!
QUESTION>>>> Maybe u will answer to my question...or may not...here it comes. I rescued a all black german shepherd that was abandone in a field...very thin, super scare, took me about 2 hours to gain her trust. Home behavior.. Very scare, scare when eats, scare if i talk a bit loud, scare of the broom, does not come when i call even with treats, so afraid that she does not stop to drink water, she take a shot of the water and then runs...same with food... that was four months ago... Now...she comes when i call her, she is trusting me more, she plays with me (just new behavior 4 days ago), obey when i say "hush" (meaning no), she gets alone with my other rescue dogs...however I can not figure out how to cut the following behavior. She gets crazy when I am getting ready to give food to all the dogs.. I follow herarky...but she can not sit or still in one place like my other dogs do, she cry, goes in circles, cry more, for about 5 minutes...then when is her turn to eat she sits (now) but she is overexcited. I put the bowl high, do not say anything to which she sits but she still overexcited, put the food down and i tell her to calm down, stop her tail to go a million rmps and to be still...but she still overexcited...when i see her going to 100 percent crazy to a 60 percent a give her permission to eat. taking into account that she was left starving (23Lbs when i found her) and signs of heavy abuse. How can i help her to get calm from a 100 crazy to 0 crazy...she has an attention span of 2 minutes if i am lucky. She is trying her best to please me but struggles. She knows that I am the alpha because she walks besides me (learned by herself) and if she goes forward i stop and she comes back to position..very intelligent but needs a lot of work and love which i am willing to do for her. Any tips how to break her anxiety for food -desperate to eat- behavior? thanks.
I cant get my 5 year old gsd to stay focused on me when we're out training in the yard ive been trying to get her to do it everyday for 5 years but she wont do it
