How to Fit a Prong Collar on the Dog You're Training

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Hi! I am Melanie McLeroy with Taurus Training for Expert Village and today we are going to talk about training dogs. So let us talk about marking challenges. This is Cody. Cody came over with her owner last night and I noticed that Cody tended to ignore her owner when her owner gave commands. Her owner had to keep repeating over and over and over with a lot of corrections and ineffective no reward markers. So I am going to work a little bit with Cody. Now I may try a few techniques with her that I will talk about in other videos, but it is very likely that I will have to lure her into the down position, which is the one the command that she was ignoring yesterday and we will just see how it goes. Cody, sit, good. Now that one was perfect. Notice that I used my body language to indicate to Cody what I wanted her to do. Now I am going to try a down command without a treat and see how it goes, good girl, down, so that was a no reward marker. Cody technically was behaving but she was moving very, very slowly that was a test. She also never laid completely down and relaxed, which is the definition of the down command. So we are going to try this again with the treat no reward marker, down, good. So the second she relaxes is when I mark the behavior. It took a while, I had to have some patience, but I did finally get the behavior. Sit, good. Now she knows I have the treats. Down, good, alright, so we are speeding up. Okay, sit, good, down, good, okay. Now here is when the challenge comes in. I have gotten the behavior, we are marking it appropriately, and however, this could make Cody become dependent upon luring. Now is when we need to start moving forward to intermittent reinforcement and fading the lure. You can checkout those videos also on Expert Village.

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