Re: [PyrNet-L] Pyrs easy to train???? NOT

[Jane Gill <janegill@fast.net>]

Ann Wetherilt wrote:

>  What I like about the way you and others describe it is
> that it sounds like a game yet is accomplishing the behaviors you want.
> Ann W
>

Exactly!  I was also amazed:  I had worked sooooooo hard on getting the timing
of my praise just right, but hot dang you can time the clicker even better.  I
was really tickled the first time that I saw Conrad stop, when I had clicked
something, and begin whirling that brain of his (looking at his paws, etc.)
studying on what exactly he had been doing when I had clicked.  He should have
been wearing a Sherlock Holmes cap to go with the expression.  Then when he
had his "short list" down of what it might have been, he started offering
those behaviors one by one by one to see what got clicked.
    With the puppy, I've used it a lot while teaching new behaviors, and it
seems like things go much faster, but I still did have to go into correction
mode when Weezie got adolescent and decided to see what would happen if she
ran the other way when I called her to come (g).   The battle was brief yet
pitched, and Weezie decided that on average coming when called was probably
more pleasant than the alternative (how did Mom make the sky explode?  Where
did all of those soda cans full of pennies come from?  What's happening?
MOMMMMM!!!!  SAVE ME!)
    We're having someone do a brief demo for us at the Penn-Dutch Christmas
party, a woman who used to be a dolphin trainer and is now working with
problem dogs.  I'm real interested to see what she has to say!

Jane Gill
janegill@fast.net