Jean Donaldson training video?

ron2

Shadow gets on the double recliner, sleeps in the bed. He likes to lick the foot rest part of the recliner. And I allow that because he moves when I ask, he "off"s," he heels. And the recliner is old and from a friend. I doubt we're hurting it.

Crud, I'm out of time. Maybe more later.

 

Sioux likes the recliner, too, but she licks my feet.   OK on the days when she hasn't been scrounging in the yard for disgusting things LOL.

Hum... Brooke does the same exact thing.  She crawls on the recliner with me or without me and licks the foot rest, I assume it has something to do with the raiments of the sticky 7 year old fingers.

Anne,  River loves to lick my feet!

spiritdogs

Totally OT, but I had a Beagle once that would lick my legs all the way up to my thighs.  She used to love getting into bed with me on a lazy weekend, and would do it all the way through Sunday Morning, or whatever show I was watching...  I miss my little weasel dog.

Yum...

You're not off topic if we're talking about doing slightly abbie-normal things with our dogs.

 What is it with dogs and foot smells anyway? It's like catnip for dogs.

All of my dogs have been sock collectors.

Angelique

What is it with dogs and foot smells anyway?

No telling. There's been a few times when I have passed gas, Shadow takes a whiff and then moves away. Yes, I have warded off my own dog who will sniff other dog piles.

 Actually, Sequoyah doesn't give a rat's butt about my feet, nor do Maska or Fergie - it's just Sioux.  But, the hound is a sock collector, only because he knows that he can bring them to the kitchen before he thinks about shredding them, and get a cookie for turning them in to "lost and found" LOL.

spiritdogs

But, the hound is a sock collector, only because he knows that he can bring them to the kitchen before he thinks about shredding them, and get a cookie for turning them in to "lost and found" LOL.

Yes, that sounds like Dell. 

spiritdogs

 Actually, Sequoyah doesn't give a rat's butt about my feet, nor do Maska or Fergie - it's just Sioux.  But, the hound is a sock collector, only because he knows that he can bring them to the kitchen before he thinks about shredding them, and get a cookie for turning them in to "lost and found" LOL.

Oh man, that's exactly like Shadow either pretending to chase Jade so that he can "off" when I say so or come up to me and drop the kong, thinking he will get treats. I do it enough to keep him thinking that.

ron2

Oh man, that's exactly like Shadow either pretending to chase Jade so that he can "off" when I say so or come up to me and drop the kong, thinking he will get treats. I do it enough to keep him thinking that.

And isn't it great that this is how we can so easily teach our dogs to do certain things if we just reward what we want?  My JRT is my most reliable dog on recall.  Ok, he is almost 10 years old and that is a lot of treats he has received over the years, EVERY single time he came to me for years and he still gets reinforced intermittently and is constantly checking in with me, just in case.

JackieG

ron2

Oh man, that's exactly like Shadow either pretending to chase Jade so that he can "off" when I say so or come up to me and drop the kong, thinking he will get treats. I do it enough to keep him thinking that.

 

And isn't it great that this is how we can so easily teach our dogs to do certain things if we just reward what we want?  My JRT is my most reliable dog on recall.  Ok, he is almost 10 years old and that is a lot of treats he has received over the years, EVERY single time he came to me for years and he still gets reinforced intermittently and is constantly checking in with me, just in case.

Yes, it is very cool.  And exactly the point of Jean's little "display".  It really doesn't matter what behavior you want to elicit - all you need to do is reinforce the dog for doing it, a reinforcement being something that the dog wants, and is willing to work for.

spiritdogs

Yes, it is very cool.  And exactly the point of Jean's little "display".  It really doesn't matter what behavior you want to elicit - all you need to do is reinforce the dog for doing it, a reinforcement being something that the dog wants, and is willing to work for.

I happen to think that, in context, this video clip would illustrate the Premack Principle (grandma's rule.) Rewarding a cued behavior with a favored behavior by the dog (if you finish your vegetables, you get to play X-Box.)

I've used Premack, as well, and some might think it odd as to what I have done. Shadow loves to pull and track mouse scent. And I have gotten recall to me, only to be rewarded by continuing to pull and follow the scent track, seemingly antithetical to how we should walk or dogs. Once, we tracked halfway across the whole spread of Sherman Town Center after a cotton rat. And, at a certain point, I cued hook, gee, hike, and we went off in another direction.

I think it should help to remember that dogs don't think of sex like we do. And much humping behavior in dogs is not related to reproduction but to social meaning. But it certainly looked like a love affair, from our perspective.