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Professional insights, training tips and reflections from Canis instructors. Clicker training, learning psychology and everyday dog training.
Professional insights, training tips and reflections from Canis instructors. Clicker training, learning psychology and everyday dog training.
Grunnferdigheter · 6. oktober 2020 · 1 min
Here you can see the entire session and how I gradually raised the criteria throughout. In such small increments that she was still able to do the right thing, but at the same time in large enough steps that we made progress.
Grunnferdigheter · 6. oktober 2020 · 1 min
I make some mistakes along the way, clicking for things I shouldn't have clicked for and so on, but that's fine as long as I notice it and adjust afterwards.
Konkurranselydighet · 8. august 2020 · 2 min
From there onwards I see everything as a disturbance. I change positions—first sitting, then I stand up, and I also add movement.
Konkurranselydighet · 10. oktober 2019 · 2 min
"Shaping" means forming a behaviour through gradual approximations towards the final goal. We use shaping a great deal in clicker training (but shaping is not necessarily synonymous with clicker training).
Morten Egtvedt
Grunnferdigheter · 24. august 2019 · 2 min
We can call this Cuba's first "official" training session with DZ (she's 6 months old and we've had her for just under 2 months so far).
Morten Egtvedt
Grunnferdigheter · 31. januar 2019 · 2 min
I now have four dogs and they have quite different starting points.
Grunnferdigheter · 21. mars 2018 · 2 min
I'm not entirely happy with Bonus's position in heelwork off-lead. In my opinion, she's a bit too far forward.
Agility · 17. mars 2018 · 3 min
Cobra has her starting position between my legs for agility. When I first began training it, I wanted her right in the middle between my legs, but over time the position has gradually moved further and further forward.
Konkurranselydighet · 6. februar 2018 · 4 min
The main focus will still be on agility, but now she will also train a bit more obedience and because I don't like to do things halfway, she will now be a participant in the foundation skills course starting 20 February.
Grunnferdigheter · 7. februar 2016 · 2 min
I started the clicker trainer course at Canis in September 2013. The plan was to use Bonus on the course, but Bonus was only 6 weeks old on the first course weekend, so Lexie came along instead.