Well I am pondering how to go about the incredibly challanging task of teaching Noch how to pass other dogs without going beserk (he looooves other dogs and will bark and jump around in excited frustration and forgets I exist).
I am thinking it comes down to me improving my training skills. Things like timing and setting him up to suceed seem incredibly important. But I am a bit lost as to how to go about it without getting frustrated and (being the crossover trainer that I am) resorting to negative reinforcement in sheer frustration...
So I've ended up reading my clicker book again "Klickerträning för din hund" (in swedish) by Morten Egtvedt and Cecilie Köste. A brilliant book, but unfortunately not-so-great layout. The font they've used for the body text is sans serif making it hard to read. An eyesore for someone like me who works with layout on a day to day basis. But yeah, apart from that it's full of brilliant advice. I think I am going to start a training log to help me hone my criterion-setting skills (and have a clear training plan).
But yeah the one thing I wanted to mention was the following (summarised and partly quoted from the book):
Dog trainers using positive reinforcement set their dogs up to suceed, so that they may have lots of opportunities to reward their dogs for good behaviour.
Dog trainers using negative reinforcement set their dogs up to fail, so that they get lots of oppotunities to correct their dogs.
That thought I found really really interesting!! And made me go "ahhh.... oh yeah".
Lastly a You Tube video, some really good criterion-setting-up going on here:
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