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Rewards - Prey drive and using toys and dog treats in your training program
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Food and some toy reward
Note:
Animals quickly learn cause and effect. Food for thought...if your dog
continuously does something you don't like, then think about how you may
have inadvertently rewarded it!
 For our dog training application, rewarding the dog with the toy is not so much about building drive. But more so about giving us a clear way to communicate with the dog. The use of rewards allows us a way to tell the dog he has accomplished what we asked correctly.Rewards serve many purposes during dog training in addition to building drive and focus. Highly rewarded, repetitious training drills will elicit a strong desire in the dog to repeat an exercise. As well as to teach the dog how quickly to execute an exercise. Desired behavior that is highly rewarded stimulates the dog for a speedy response. Of course all dogs have a different genetic makeup. Dogs that have an inherent fast, twitch muscle do respond best to this type of work. Predator or Prey: Think about this; rewarding an animal with food or a toy evokes the hunt response. It is similar to animals hunting in the wild. The more success they have catching their prey the more efficient they become. The process that leads to the quickest results will be the one repeated the most! Capping Drive: Not only are toy rewards a useful tool for communicating with the dog. But they are a necessity for developing control and the ability to cap drive in the performance dog. We simply setup training drills for the dog. Once we have the dog craving the toy, we ask the dog for control...we withhold the toy until the dog shows control. Once he shows control, he is then released and allowed to take his reward. One of the most important components of Schutzhund is control. Without it we have nothing. Of course, some dogs have a natural genetic ability for this type of work and will show a very clean performance because of it. There are many uses for the toy reward in dog training. No longer is sport obedience simply about the dog obeying. If used correctly, rewards will become a very powerful tool rather than a simple manipulation device! |
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