Today’s Kikopup’s Dog Training Tip of the Day is on building confidence. Epic my chihuahua became scared of weaving my legs after tripping on her. So the tip is that you can change the antecedents so much that they dont remind the dog of the negative emotion, then you can either have difference props or cues or slowly morph the antecedents back to the original picture after building confidence trust and enthusiasm, rather than trying to work through the fear or anxiety.
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-Emily Larlham (AKA Kikopup)
Hello everyone and welcome to kiko pups Dog training tip of the day for today Today we’re going to be working on Building your dogs confidence and trust In this specific scenario it’s epics Confidence with weaving my legs she does Have luxating patellas but also i made The mistake of tripping while we were Doing leg weaving and since then she’s Lost trust and confidence with weaving My legs and she’s finding it aversive When i ask for doing it she doesn’t want To do it because she is worried that She’s going to get hurt because i’m very Big and now i am untrustable with my Movement because i tripped so The the key with if your dog has started To not want to do a certain trick or Behavior is first go to the vet and Check out to see there’s like nothing Wrong if you suspect that But the next step is changing the Picture so i’m going to make the picture Look completely different i’m sitting Down my legs are very stationary and Reliable and she’s very comfortable Around my legs see I could work first work on Being comfortable about around my legs If the dog was still really scared of The whatever it is like the legs you Could try a different object so maybe Two cones And work on that first build the cue the
Trust and confidence and then switch it Back to the old picture if you wanted to Do that So with her i’m gonna use a high rate of Reinforcement so i’m gonna give her a Treat actually she goes in the opposite Direction i’m going to give her a treat Here And then over here i call it hansel and Gretel so they’re just doing the Behavior looking for the next treat and Then do this a couple of times where the Dog is just getting really confident With going between your legs like that To find the treats and then you make the Treats further and further apart and see If the dog might think to offer the Behavior looking for the next treat so i Can also make it more likely to happen By having my hand put a treat here Like that and have my hand disappear Under my leg so she might think to go Under there And i can mark it Good and then feed her in the direction That she’s going so that i’m creating This nice Flowing movement Then once i’ve gotten to the point where She is offering the behavior really Really reliably which she’s not yet I can then go back to adding a cue and i Could add a completely different cue so The last cue that i had was legs and
Legs meant Uh recently To not go through my legs and be scared That i’m going to step on her so i’m Going to call it weave So i can say go weave And then lure her Go weave Good Go weave Good girl And then go back to making it super easy Where she’s offering again Because i wouldn’t really add the cue Here yet but that would be the next step Because she’s not quite yet confidently Going through my legs And really really finding it reinforcing Good girl So i might get three leg weaves that she Offers where she goes like through here And then through here Three times before i then add the cue to Make it really really reinforcing but i Did also drop some crumbs so that’s what Why she’s hesitating But usually if your dog is really Interested in in working for the treats That you have in their tiny tiny crumbs It just tells you that They’re not completely confident about How to earn the treat They rather look for teeny weeny little Crumbs than do the behavior so it is
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