Name: Playbook - Ruben Colin - Week 2: Reinforce yes outside
Uploaded: 2023-07-02T12:51:04.552Z
Duration: 10 min
Description: Week 2: Reinforce yes outside

Week 2: We will focus on reinforcing yes outside. Go to your backyard or a fenced in grass area and practice yes. No distractions.

Week 2: We will focus on reinforcing yes outside. Go to your backyard or a fenced grass area and practice yes. No distractions.

Week 2 reinforce yes

We want to say yes when the dog is neutral or doing a positive behavior. Avoid saying yes when the dog is doing a negative behavior (jumping, biting, digging, intense staring at other dogs). Our goal is to continue classically condition the dog with the same word. The more our dog is engaged and having fun the more we will mark the positive behaviors.

Yes outside

High energy dogs. Avoid rewarding too many passive behaviors. Stay active, move & pay.

Yes for high energy dogs

Week 2: we are showing our dog the same cues that will prompt us to give them food. Goal is to build engagement and to get our dog use to coming to us.  We want these behaviors to be a habit because we will use them in the future.

Outside engagement and recall

Having a placement bed within eyes sight will be helpful. Say “yes” when the dog is neutral, gives you eye contact, or jump on the bed without you saying anything.

Different Ways to continue The Game

Loki food drive is higher than the desire he has to go play with a dog. We build Loki food drive now we are going to practice engagement and sit outside. This is the same exercise we want to practice when our dogs don’t want to engage outside. When our dog refuses to listen to us outside, we want to go back to this exercise. 1 . engagement 2. Then ask the dog for the behavior we want. Our dog needs to know that behavior first.

Engagement and sit outside

Goal - create a dog that listens the first time and engage by itself. Sometimes I say “ yes “ just because Loki engage & sometimes I say “ sit “ he sit immediately and I say “ yes “ & pay the man. Very IMPORTANT I am not rewarding lazy “ sit “ & random looks (engagement). I see a fast “ sit “ then he gets pay. A slow “sit” gets him a “break”. Same thing for engagement we need to see and feel like the dog is looking through us. That’s how much eye 👁️ contact we are getting from the dog & reward that more often.