Dog Training for Success – Robert Cabral Dog Training #7
people often ask how do you get your dog
to wanna train with you and that’s real
simple I make it so fun and so positive
that it’s the most positive experience
he has all day
first of all training should only last
five to ten minutes at a time
don’t be one of those people who train
your dog constantly they’re always on
the dog sit calm stay sit come down that
deduct it up it where’s the dog’s nerves
out so whenever you see someone doing
that they’re nagging their dog over and
over again most of the time my dogs free
he can run around and have fun and run
the yard and play and frolic with his
friends until I ask him to do something
during training when I when I structure
my training times I make them real
simple they last five to ten minutes at
a time with a high Drive dog like goofy
you might make them last longer you
might go ten to fifteen minutes but
you’ll never train more than fifteen
twenty minutes with any dog even the top
level competition dog protection dog or
a detection dog keeping it very short
and allowing the dog to succeed allowing
the dog to win and ending it on that
positive note is the number one goal for
success in dog training dogs have a very
very short attention span so you can
only hope that they’ll pay attention to
you for that duration and when they
start to check out it doesn’t get any
better there’s no way you’re gonna get
your bet dog back to do one more time
when he starts checking out I would
really encourage you to end it on a
positive note put the dog away put him
in his crate and his kennel put him in
the house put him in his room and then
that’s it that’s its end of story as you
can see Goofy’s raring to go he just
wants to do something and I haven’t even
given him a command yet I’ve just been
standing here talking to you that’s the
kind of focus you’re gonna gain on your
dog if you play the game right that
means when the dog is on he’s on with me
there’s treats involved there’s toys
involved there’s a toy right now in my
back pocket there’s another toy behind
my back and all he really wants to do is
to get to those toys which is what I
want him to do everything we’ll do with
our dog is going to involve the dog
succeeding the dog learning a behavior
the dog understanding that behavior and
being rewarded for that behavior without
a reward without a mark without a food
reward or a treat reward or a toy reward
or anything like
there’s no way the dog will mark that
and the old days people would put a
pinch collar on a dog and yank up on the
dog’s neck until the dog sat and then
would say oh that’s a good boy
now a lot of the training has really
gone quite the other way that means the
trainer’s now wait for the dog to do
something and they wait and wait and
wait and if the dog does the right thing
then they’ll reward the dog with a
clicker or a treat the answer again lies
somewhere in the middle you’re gonna
want to shape behaviors and mould
behaviors and that’s all stuff that I’m
going to teach you to do using food will
you be a primary starting point for
training your dog and then you’ll move
on to toys the difference between food
reward and toy reward are quite simple
if I explaining to you this way one if
you use a food reward it calms the dog
down dogs generally will take the food
and take that minute to chew it swallow
it and eat it if you use a toy on the
other hand it engages the dog to play so
the dog will start bringing his drives
back up in the beginning when we want to
get the dog shaped into wanting to be
with us and wanting to be next to us and
wanting to obey us and focus on us we
use treats more often than we use toys
you’ll have to determine the drive of
your dog and the personality of your dog
so if your dog is a real lazy dog but
gets crazy for a ball bring that ball
out now I’d like to tell you a really
important point that is if your dog is
ball crazy do not bring that ball out
and let him play the whole time with
that ball if you do you’re gonna lessen
the effect that that ball has on the
reward so my dog is crazy for Tug toys
and balls he never sees a toddler ball
unless he’s playing with me training
with me or working with me on a new
behavior or an obedience routine treats
same way if you feed your dog a big meal
for breakfast and then you bring your
dog out and suddenly you want to have
your dog train with you well he already
had the reward and then it becomes
punishment because what you’re doing is
you’re asking your dog to do a behavior
and you’re giving him a very small
amount of reward we’ve already given him
a great reward for doing nothing
so all training should be done before
feeding and it should also be done
before walk and playtime so dogs always
go from an area of confinement to
structure interaction playing and then
to freedom so one I take my dog out in
the morning I let him to his potty I do
a quick five-minute ten-minute obedience
team or obedience training and then I’ll
play tug with the dog I’ll play ball
with the dog or I’ll feed my dog that’s
the first routine in the afternoon I’ll
take my dog out I’ll work with my dog on
some simple behavior to sit it down a
front to come recall anything like that
then I’ll take my dog for a long walk or
a long play session a frisbee ball
session or whatever it is in the
afternoon I bring my dog out and I
engage him immediately to me we do it
another little obedience sit down recall
whatever the training is for that point
and then boom he gets to play or gets
these dinner rewards
