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re: Need some advice on training my lab
Posted on 12/14/23 at 8:13 am to TigersBy90
Posted on 12/14/23 at 8:13 am to TigersBy90
The E collar is a reinforcing tool not a teaching tool. The trick to training is reading the dog. Meaning guessing why an animal is doing what he’s doing at that time. I say guessing because you don’t know until you correct the dog. If your dog responds positively you more than likely read him correctly. Your goal in collar conditioning is to condition the dog to not freak out at the stimulation but to accept it as an extension of your control. You sound like you are very thoughtful in your training. My dad who was not a dog trainer gave me the best advice for training. I didn’t understand it or really paid attention to it. He said to train a dog you have to be smarter than that dog. Continue to work on reading your dog and maybe let a good trainer watch your training.
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Posted on 12/14/23 at 8:22 am to Ppro
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The E collar is a reinforcing tool not a teaching tool
Great point.
I used an e collar. Now I don’t need it. But I put it on him every time. When it goes on he knows it’s time to work. I tell him free at the end and take it off and he goes wild. Haha
Posted on 12/14/23 at 8:31 am to Ppro
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The E collar is a reinforcing tool not a teaching tool
Correct!! And that’s what I was attempting to do is reinforce “place” and send him to the stand. He was avoiding the stand at all cost once I nicked him and said place for some reason his is associating the place stand with the shocking and he doesn’t like it. But I shock him until he (eventually if at all) gets up there and I stop it. Same way I do him when I say “here” and he does just fine with that part. he’s never once been happy about doing that drill since we started so I know that’s part of the problem but at the same time there’s going to be things he doesn’t like but im not asking him to do them im telling him. And I know dogs will see how much they can get out of doing the things they don’t want to do and I feel if I quit now he will feel as if he won (which he did) it will only get worse later on during our training
This post was edited on 12/14/23 at 8:33 am
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