Dog Training Tip of the Day- Excitement over food
January 12, 2010 by admin
Filed under Dog Training
This is my dog training tip of the day. How to build calmness in your dog using their meal. If you think in the terms that you are training your dog 100% of the time, every reinforcement you give your dog or the environment gives your dog, is building some behavior or emotional state….
Another one that I love!!
try to prepare you food 1st and let the dog see you do this,,make sure you eat 1st then only once the dog is calm and backed away from their food you can feed them,,,border collies are generally very clever and learn quickly but can learn bad habbits as well as good habits quickly too so be consistant with them ,,and good luck
So, so true that it’s not fair for them to be in that state of arousal every day for their dinner. Fantastic video.
I need to work on this with my Border Collie, Buddy. He get so excited that he pees himself.
The following are six steps for teaching your dog a new behavior:
1. Get the behavior.
2. Mark the behavior.
3. Reward the behavior.
4. Repeat the behavior until it happens easily at least 90% of the time.
5. Add the verbal cue as your dog does the behavior to associate the word with the appropriate response.
6. Use the verbal cue to elicit the behavior.
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my pets dogs and cats were saised on the food bowl is never empty treats were exciting .day to day living was there with out fail .Boring but there. they never got fat
I am going to try this, thank you so much you are the best when it comes to dog behavior and tricks
i have watched every single video you have here… all in one day!!! i love the method you use, i love the relationship you have with your beautiful pups, you are amazing!!! my 10 month old yorkie/poodle mix has been clicker training for a month, and just today rambo learned 2 new ones. crossing his paws and weaving through my legs!!! you are fantastic. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
You could build calmness to the degree that you want. I for example, have dogs that are calm enough around food, so I can work on complex tricks without them just staring at the food, or spinning and jumping. But not too calm that they are not motivated enough to do high energy tricks. I actually myself will do exercises to build arousal on food with my dogs. There are owners who will want to build calmness and others who will want to build arousal… depending on how the dog is at this point
If you think in terms of reinforcement… behaviors that are reinforced increase, so a ‘hyper active’ dog might not actually genetically be ‘hyper active’, the owner just kept reinforcing the dog and increasing the dogs likeliness to be more and more hyper, the dog is not consciously choosing to be that way, neuron connections have been formed in the dogs brain from behaviors the owner ‘chose’ to reinforce.
I took tooo much footage!!! its taking forever to edit into something small for youtube. I am going tomorrow to film a quick video on loose leash walking with a pitbull, that should be on youtube sooner than the dogmantics episode.
yep. like boiled chicken etc.
excitement is often mistaken for happiness. its usually a dog that is stressed out. Cesar Millan does an episode on it i think. I remember watching it. He said that an overly stressed dog will look excited and ‘happy’ when the true happy state is when it is relaxed.
im sure any small, soft treat will work. just make sure its not full of bad ingredients.
Hi Emily
I was actually wondering if you’ve made the episode for Dogmantics on Pit Bulls yet? Love everything you do:))
Karen
you are amazing. could I ask what kind of treats do you use for training?
I really love all of your videos. Are there any tips you could give on house training? Maybe a video? Both my dog and I thank you for all your help!
Everybody who knows dog psychology says that excitement is negative for the dog. But as you say, for us it seems like the dog is really happy when it’s jumping around like crazy.
What is it that makes excitement negative for a dog? What if the dog is wagging it’s tail when he sees that you prepare food, or if it sits down looking really concentrated at you when you do it? Is this considered some kind of stress for the dog? Should a dog always be totally calm to be happy?
I can’t tell you how HAPPY I am to find your channel! I grew up with a dog and my parents trained her much like your experience, punishment after punishment, nose in the accident, etc. I hated that
I am going to be getting a small dog this summer (I’ve only had big dogs) so I was feeling a bit nervous about them not being smart enough to learn to behave. You and Kiko & Splash have made me realize that ALL dogs can be wonderful dogs!
P.S. I can’t wait for a no-barking tutorial!!
excellent point Em. good good suggestion. I love Splash’s sweet face after you give her pellets under the table; like, is there more?
-T
Wonderful tip and explination. Your doing a wonderful job.
I have a dog that sometimes will eat his food over long periods of the day, saving it and what not, and whether or not this is good for him I do not know, but his meal portions are tapered for his size and he only gets two day, so we prefer him to eat it all at once. Anyways, I got him to eat (and calmly) by fixing up the bowl for him and then instead of putting it down, holding it in a corner so he can’t see what I’m doing…He calms down, I put it down and he appreciates the meal and eats.
Sound advice Emily. Your clips are showing how `expert village` needs to find a real dog trainer.
This makes sooo much sense. My furry ones are so food motivated that there is an intense level of excitement at mealtime, especially the pup. Will do the prep an hour ahead and wait for calm. Thank you so much for all your help in Dogmantics!
Fantástico como siempre… un tip no solo superinteresante, sino “fundamental” e “imprescindible”.
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Muchas gracias
Un fuerte abrazo Emily