Why You Should Change Your Strategy Rather Than Your Criteria When Dog Training #188 #podcast

Fabulous tips, techniques and examples, as always! Thank you Susan!

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? How is this different than your rewarding things they may be having trouble with before moving on? Like getting rewarded quickly for something they're having trouble with? One of the episodes says most people try to just continue on when they get it right rather than reward for that thing that was so difficult before moving on. Just wondering. Does that make sense?

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I especially appreciate the fitness tips. There are “awareness” moments here too- eureka!

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That is such a helpful lesson!! How do I get the notes please?
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Don’t worry, just found how to do that!😊

This brings up a question that I wanted to put to Susan for over 10 years here goes… What is the difference between lowering criteria and Susan‘s “roughly right?”

Love it

Thank you for making this video I needed it

Love this video! I had somuch trouble with the concept before I started training g with Sharon! She helped me understand about not changing criteria. I have a sheltie who barked when we trained. She made me see that he had no idea what I wanted because the ground rules kept changing. Now things go well with only the occasional woof . He can concentrate and work hard! Your examples were good esp for the back.

Great vid as always! Quick clarification question, do you "ping pong" the difficulty across acquisition trials (eg if we're working on recall, we may vary the distance between 10-15ft across 10x trials) so the trials are not getting predictably harder and harder on that parameter? Or, once a certain level of criteria has been successfully offered, that's our new minimum criteria for reinforcement (eg with weaves, once pooch has achieved 4 poles we always stay at 4 but perhaps change approach angle if they're struggling to maintain criteria)? I hope all that makes sense!

I missed you during the break!!! I need my fix :) - "Make it easy to be correct" love it

Great reinforcement for strategy changes now that my dog is temporarily in a cone due to an eye infection. Training will continue using different strategies to achieve the same results. Perfect timing of this podcast for me. Thank you.

Love your analogies! 😃

Thank you very much. Back to crate games for us

Another fabulous podcast, thank you Susan. And just what I have been doing wrong with my latest training, changing the criteria and rewarding a behaviour that is almost there but not quite right. So will change strategy ❤ and yes I have tried to teach my dog to walk backwards with walking towards him but all he does is sit down, ha ha. Thank you for sharing how you get your dog to walk backwards

Great video!! I needed to hear this! I’m so guilty!

Susan, brilliant content and knowledge sharing as always. I thank you. 😊

It's soooo good to hear you again. I hope you had wonderful holidays. I think your videos are just soo helpful. And your Grandma example was on point. 🤭 Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. ♥️

I love your videos so much ! And I have came into a hard stop on training my dogs I do have 2 puppies ! One just turned 1 on Christmas Day and the other one is going to turn 1 on the 29th . I wish I came across your podcast before I got my second dog 😭 but there is no going back ! I did purchase the crate games, homeschool the dog and pedicure and I’m not sure on which one to start with or can I start all of them or how would I plan the training for my dogs I feel so lost and stressed out I try to train my dogs but they always loose interest and I get discouraged 😭 I know this is out of topic but I need help 😭

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Nailed it again Susan! Thank You! I needed these reminders regarding criteria! You think you know it but then looking at it from different perspectives with your examples really drives it home for me. ❤
Excellent explanations and solutions.

Great reminders for experienced people with a new dog that learns differently than their other dog and wonderful examples for beginning trainers - thank you

This episode is spot on ! Thank you, Susan.

Oh this makes so much sense and I can see where I’ve made the mistake of accepting/rewarding something because he tried but just didn’t quite get the criteria right. And he knows it too. I’ll be more conscious of that.

Wow! I need to watch this a few more times to process all this great information. I need to remember when we hit a roadblock to break things down into smaller pieces and make it harder for him to fail. I know this! Why can't I remember it when we are stuck!

I love the analogy of the goal/criteria being to get to grandma's house but there might be numerous routes/strategies as to how to achieve that. thank-you ( I also like a related idea from you that luring is a bit like using a sat nav to get there - it doesn't help you get there without the sat nav that well !)

Just this morning, my little shift in strategy was to say 'pivot' instead of "come back" while walking my dog. She is a puller, getting better, but I can wait forever for her to make the choice to come back to my side when I halt her for pulling too far ahead. That combination of words is not effective for me with her. But she pivots on a dime when I do rally o with her. today's loose leash walk was far better than other walk recently

I'm teaching my doodle to put his chin on the floor (from a down position). I started with a lure, but he just kept bumping my hand. So I put the kibble on the floor, and he tries to army-crawl over to it. He smells food on my hand and bops my hand rather than simply drop his chin. I've been able to use a lure to train several other maneuvers, but this one isn't working, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, or how to help him understand exactly what I want. Thoughts?

Thos woman is awesome

You could knit but I do t zee that happening. 😊