I find your videos so useful. Oh how I wish I had the expertise and grace you show here. So impressive and such an incentive for me to keep trying to improve my communication with my 10 month old male Border Collie who has so much to offer in potential. Keep educating us please and thank you!
Thank you will watch this over and over as it gives lots of tips you are so kind to us pet owners I love making my GSD day full of fun through training and play
I'm reviewing some of my favorite "Marker" videos to help a friend with her dog. Initially I had to use a lot of static rewards with my Working Line Shepherd. Now I use mostly Dynamic rewards (throw a ball or a lotus ball), and he waits in focused position until I throw it & say "break". I use both for reinforcement. But I can take him to a public place, send him to "place" on a towel (he's learned to generalize "place" to any flat or raised surface that doesn't look like the area around it), and he's not going anywhere.
He is right (as usual)... a REWARD for a dog can change and it is NOT always what you assume. A dog is not a person... see? Some dogs really dig a rolled or thrown ball or a tiny dry food morsel or being scratched lightly and told you love them. STOP ASSUMING and give a dog what it likes!
