I am trying to teach Belle to shake but she just doesn't get it. I have tried treats, the clicker anything I can think of any.
Any ideas? She is very smart so it's not that she can't learn. I think she just doesn't want too!
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Shaking
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, Oct 14 2007 09:32 PM
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Posted 14 October 2007 - 09:32 PM
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Posted 15 October 2007 - 02:40 AM
We were trying to teach Dude to "shake", but realized that when he sits he tucks his hind feet up under him, so alot of his weight is on his front feet making "shake" almost impossible for him to do. Maybe Belle does the same thing?
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I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit,
you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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Posted 15 October 2007 - 09:41 AM
I used this method with Skitter, the "I never do anything dog"...
Once they understand the click/treat scenario, hold the treat up above her head. When she tries to reach up for it and moves her foot, c/t!!! (or off to the side, when she shifts, c/t) do that several times and she will figure out she is really getting the c/t for moving her feet. Work from there for more movement until she is lifting her paw up to you...
This was the first thing Skitter learned via clicker training and it is the "default" behavior when I am looking for something new or different and she doesn't know... She ALWAYS falls back to this...
This movement is the one they use to paint...
I use "say hello" for shaking hands because I also have them shaking (like water off them) on a somewhat-reliable command and "wave" or "paint" for no contact when they give me their paw...
Once they understand the click/treat scenario, hold the treat up above her head. When she tries to reach up for it and moves her foot, c/t!!! (or off to the side, when she shifts, c/t) do that several times and she will figure out she is really getting the c/t for moving her feet. Work from there for more movement until she is lifting her paw up to you...
This was the first thing Skitter learned via clicker training and it is the "default" behavior when I am looking for something new or different and she doesn't know... She ALWAYS falls back to this...
This movement is the one they use to paint...
I use "say hello" for shaking hands because I also have them shaking (like water off them) on a somewhat-reliable command and "wave" or "paint" for no contact when they give me their paw...
Edited by jmnodwell, 15 October 2007 - 09:42 AM.
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Posted 15 October 2007 - 11:25 AM
Does Mannix know shake? Val taught Cocoa how to speak.
The embedded collars in his neck when we got him and he goes back and extends the gentle paw to the human race. One heck of a dog.
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Posted 15 October 2007 - 02:17 PM
I am trying to teach Lilo the same thing. I always have Magnum do it first and he gets rewarded and then I try with her. I have gotten her to lift her paw about 2 inches off the floor so far but she is slowly learning this one - she has sit, down, leave it and go lay down good though.
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"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience"
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"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations."
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Posted 15 October 2007 - 07:40 PM
We just kept picking up the dog's paw while saying "shake" and then while holding their paw, gave them a treat. Now they do it without the command!
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