Snowy day fun

judisedwards
Feb 11
1 min read

I made this video for one of you…and thought I’d share with everyone. Here’s an easy indoor article game, can be played with a glass of wine, spirits, or a beer. The dog is playing for his dinner. The tossed treat is really for a better camera angle, but if your dog crowds you so you can’t switch articles out, toss a cookie! Coming back and indicating is a perfect loop. I suggest 2 articles, and absolute silence from the trainer. Use a clicker, or mouth click. Food is delivered ON THE ARTICLE—NOT NOT NOT from your hand to the dog’s mouth. Do this one meal a day and see what happens to your article indication!

https://youtu.be/GdodWPrEpf0?si=NkV43VXK8NlxzKRP

3 Comments

Andrea Stefanac

Feb 13

I have the same question- you’re looking for any interaction with the article vs the dog’s actual trained article indication? If Otter starts to pick up the articles and I can’t put the food on the article, should I just put the food on the floor? Take the article from him, set it on the ground, and place food on it?

Flora and Finwë

Feb 12

So you are not looking for a specific indication? Just for the dog to acknowledge the article, then food down?

judisedwards

Oct 18

Replying to

Yup! (Sorry, just found your question). Before he can walk he must crawl. Before I can ask for more, I must get article recognition. If he doesn’t recognize articles lead to reinforcement, how can I ask for the article to cue a behavior?