Re: [pyrnet] TRAINING: anticipating the correction

["Janice Swenson" <janices@austin.rr.com>]

On 9 Dec 2000, at 8:19, EFPico@gateway.net wrote:
> I have been training Pico using a choke collar for the past six months 
> and he has been doing really well. However, he recently came up with a
> new trick and I am not sure what to do. He is terrible about picking
> stuff up off the ground and eating it if it passes his stringent
> guidelines. When I see that he has picked something up, I say no and
> give him a correction with the leash. He has learned to anticipate
> this and he now watches me to see when I am ready to give the
> correction so that he can jump in the direction I am pulling. 

You're making yourself look like the bad guy and he anticipates 
you're going to correct.  Figure out how to do this and you don't 
look like the bad guy.  I clicker train.  Anytime I correct and we do 
correct I try to make it look like the correction just fell out of the 
sky and you're not associated with it.  If you make yourself the bad 
guy you're going to have one of these pyrs who won't come to you 
and won't be a happy camper and they will figure out ways to get 
around you because they know it's coming.  Even my newfs will do 
that.  They're way smarter than you think they are.  


Janice, janices@austin.rr.com
Lana & Linsey (newfs), Sonny (pyr)  
http://home.austin.rr.com/janices
Hutto, TX