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Hi! I am Melanie McLeroy with Taurus Training for Expert Village and today we are going
to talk about training dogs. So here we are with Cody who has an issue with obeying her
owner when she gives commands right away. She often needs several repetitions before
she will do something. So what we are going to talk about is how to go from luring with
continuous reinforcement to intermittent reinforcement. If you reward your dog every single time they
do something right, it actually makes the possibility of them performing the behavior
again less likely to happen. Intermittent or preferably random reinforcement is definitely
the way to go. So random reinforcement is what we are going to work on with Cody. In
the last video, you saw that Cody was very dependent upon the food as a lure. We are
going to try to speed her up and start throwing things at her randomly and that will make
her understand she needs to move more quickly. Cody, sit, good, so I am going to start with
luring her with the food, down, good, okay, up… I think she was cheating a little bit
there, down, good. So I am waiting until her chest actually hits the ground, okay, before
I give her the food, sit, down, good, okay, sit. Now we are going to try it without rewarding
with the food. Down, that was a no reward marker, because she did not all the way down.
Down, good, good girl, okay. Now that was particularly good, so I added a little bit
more praise, That praise can be very helpful contextually to help your dog understand that
they did something particularly well. Good girl, good, down, good, okay, no food, down,
good, okay, oh, we’re busy chewing, okay, sit down, good, no food, okay, sit down, good,
excellent, okay, sit down, good, okay. So we have already in less than two minutes gotten
Cody to the point that I do not even have to hold the food in my hand and she is responding
very quickly.