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Tehi
is the
first dog I am training and I started from zero
know-how.
The important guide in my journey has been a quite a new book from a Finnish trainer of animal actors, Mrs. Tuire Kaimio. The book is called "Puppy training". Actually it turned around almost everything I thought I knew about dogs and dog training.
For example, I thought I should do extremely long walks with my collie to reduce its activity but instead I learned that brain-work is much more effective in accomplishing this target. In addition, I thought I would not be a good enough dog owner if I would not visit agility-fields at least three times a week but instead I learned that any dog needs to have regular resting days and the best way to teach is in short 5-minute periods in my own kitchen or in between walking the dog.
The important guide in my journey has been a quite a new book from a Finnish trainer of animal actors, Mrs. Tuire Kaimio. The book is called "Puppy training". Actually it turned around almost everything I thought I knew about dogs and dog training.
For example, I thought I should do extremely long walks with my collie to reduce its activity but instead I learned that brain-work is much more effective in accomplishing this target. In addition, I thought I would not be a good enough dog owner if I would not visit agility-fields at least three times a week but instead I learned that any dog needs to have regular resting days and the best way to teach is in short 5-minute periods in my own kitchen or in between walking the dog.
I have followed these Tuire's rules of thumb:
- Dog needs every week a couple of days when there is no need to learn new things.
- One training session is less than 5 minutes long. Between sessions dog has to relax. In other words she starts to snooze around and does not steer at you begging "teach me, teach me".
- Dog under stress does not learn.
- Training can take 2-4 hours a day including pauses.
- Requirements
can be increased after 8 times
of correct performance.
- Decreasing
fear: Proceed until she stops to eat
and do this for maximum 30 minutues in a day in 5 minute sessions.
I have also
introduced
myself to the clicker training by listening
my friend's experiences and reading articles in the Internet. Useful
books have been
Karen Pryor's
"Clicker Training for Dogs" and Morgan Spector's "Clicker Training for
Obedience".
Morgan recommends these fluencies to any puppy:
1. Targeting
2. Attention, focus
3. Rear-end consciousness
4. Sit
5. Down
6. Stand
7. Hold the position, Stay
8. Left-side walking
9. Informal recall
10. Informal retrieve
11. Jumping - Not for puppies.
12. Marking
13. Distance targeting
2. Attention, focus
3. Rear-end consciousness
4. Sit
5. Down
6. Stand
7. Hold the position, Stay
8. Left-side walking
9. Informal recall
10. Informal retrieve
11. Jumping - Not for puppies.
12. Marking
13. Distance targeting
14.
"Find the one
that smells like me"
To learn to train a dog I started with teaching
tricks like "Guess
which hand?", barking when asked "agree?", waving "bye-bye", etc.
With Tehi I have had difficulties in anything doing with touching like brushing her or clipping the nails. Quite opposite is my experience about teaching her tricks -
I have succeeded easily even though I am a true novice.
With Tehi I have had difficulties in anything doing with touching like brushing her or clipping the nails. Quite opposite is my experience about teaching her tricks -
I have succeeded easily even though I am a true novice.
TRAINING DIARY
9 weeks
Sit
In Which Hand?
10 weeks
Down
14
weeks
We
attended a puppy class during weeks 14 to 19. The objective was mainly
to socalise with other puppies and go by other dogs when asked to.
17
weeks
Started
to play with a targeting stick.
Practicing
further away from home:
- Come
- Walking on-lead
- Going by people and dogs without pulling the lead
- Leaving interesting places when I want to continue
- Saying hello to people without jumping
Exploring forest and town togeather.
- Come
- Walking on-lead
- Going by people and dogs without pulling the lead
- Leaving interesting places when I want to continue
- Saying hello to people without jumping
Exploring forest and town togeather.
23
- 33 weeks
When Tehi was 5 to 6 months old we took part of two different puppy classes, one for home obedience and one for action dog obedience.
6
months
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Trained with clicker only with no cue words and off-lead. Pictures were taken 16.5.2004.
DOG BOOKS
- Tuire Kaimio "Pennun kasvatus" (2002)
- Karen Pryor "Clicker Training for Dogs" (1999)
- Karen Pryor "Click to win" (2002)
- Morgan Spector "Clicker Training for Obedience" (2003)
NET SHOPS
Amazon-bookstore in UK
Amazon-bookstore in USA
Books and training stuff in Sweden
Clickering stuff in UK
FORUMS
Karen Pryor-clicker training