Adult Dog Training - Rewarding Attention - Retro Dunbar
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Join us for a trip down dog training memory lane as Dr. Ian Dunbar leads us through how to use Reward Training to get your dog under control.
If you can’t get your dog’s attention, it’s hard to get them to do anything else, so getting and keeping a dog’s attention is an essential foundation skill. When you start training your dog to pay attention to you, you want to notice and reinforce the shortest glance, but as you continue training, your dog will look at you for longer and longer, and you should raise your standards for what requires a reward.
To make it even more challenging for your dog, you can turn your back on your dog after they’ve looked at you. Rather than trying to lure your attention, your dog has to move to find your front and Sit in front of you. Fortunately, this is a challenge your dog is very capable of, and eager to do with the right motivation. Do this enough and your dog will learn to automatically Sit-Stay and look at you when they want your attention!
Mr Dunbar,
Thank you for yet another example. Of the simplest of instruction. And the joint reward it unequivocally brings. The dogs, and owners. Have a reciprocal attention span, And you continue to have mine.
Aww... thanks! I like what you did there. Reciprocal attention on multiple levels!
This is a great exercise I will be adding to my toolbox. thank you!
Wonderful! Happy training!
As a trainer, I've always instructed my students to ask for no more than 3 seconds of eye contact. After watching the video, I'm going to start showing my more advanced students how to train for longer focus.
Yeah, it's definitely a good thing to keep in mind, especially for older dogs with human reactivity issues, but ideally, every dog would be comfortable with extended eye contact with any person. You never know when a little kid is going to find themselves face-to-face with your dog, so it's best if that doesn't cause them any stress, and with a little classical conditioning and reward-based training it's easy to train most dogs to ENJOY eye contact. ESPECIALLY if you start during puppyhood.