반려견 훈련 계획 만들기: 수산 개럿의 체크리스트 #131 #팟캐스트

my dogs and trained for two hours with a lot of record keeping in between. Nobody's tongue was hanging out. So, how much time do you have to train? Most people, the average training session of actual, all right. I've got everything set up. I'm now training. Might be five minutes, maybe 10 minutes. All right. Now checkbox number three would be what is the list of behaviors or needs that you have to train for that particular category? And two questions. It's kind of two in one. What is, review your list of needs and what is the priority and what is the one that's the most fun for the dog? Because we're bringing both of those into this training session. So, if you have like our puppy that we're training, well, I've got to teach a name recognition. I want to do some work with recalls. I want to teach them to stay in reinforcement zone. We're going for walks. I've got a list of things. What is your domino? What is the big one where you're at right now? And if you're interested in me giving you a list of some of the suggestions of things you might want to train with that new puppy, just come on over to YouTube and leave me a comment and, or go to our Shaped by Dog website and leave me a comment there. Maybe I'll include that in a future episode. So, what is the list of behaviors? So, if you're on one of our classes, of course, we're going to give you a bunch of lesson plans. That's going to give you all of those things right there. I know I am in blueprint classroom number two, and here's all the skills that I'm having to train. All right. So, what is the behaviors that you have to train? What is the domino? The one that's most important. What is the one that's most fun? And if you have a little extra time, what is something that you are also going to introduce or brush up on? So, go to your list of behaviors you want to train and what are you going to zoom in on? But remember, keep one fun and lighthearted for the dog. One that's new, the most important for you. All right. Number four, you're going to review your notes from a previous session because that's going to give you great insight into this session. What's that? You don't have notes from a previous session? Yeesh. Well, let me tell you, if you journal your training, it's going to be the absolute best way to improve. Otherwise we're humans. We tend to repeat our mistakes. So, when you review to your journal, it could be as rudimentary as you want. The date, what you trained, and on a scale of one to 10, how great was it? And the next thing would be what you want to improve. So, you're going to go to that

even if it's a rudimentary record keep and say, oh man, I remember that now. I gave myself a three on the hand touches. So, I'm going to bring hand touches into my next training session. Okay. So, review your training notes. That's checkbox number four. You may or may not be bringing something into this next training session. Now, number five, what does success look like? You know when you've finished this session, you look back and you go, this was a success because. Write that down because that is your goal of this session. You have to have targets in order to get success and move forward. If you're just going aimlessly, I'm just going to teach my dog, I don't know, to sit or roll over. I don't know. And then we'll see how that goes. Right? That's not bringing any energy to a session. That's not bringing any confidence to a session. And so, when you have a goal and you have a plan, the sessions, I tell you, it will take you a lot less time to train whatever it is that you want to train. So, make sure you've got that goal. Checkbox number six. This is a biggie. What is the equipment that is required? Now, when I say what equipment you're going to need, you're going to think, oh yeah, what treats do I have? I've got to have some lower value treats and some high value treats. I'm going to have a bunch of treats. My clicker. I'm going to have my clicker. Obviously my journal. Now that Susan's kicked my butt, I'll have my journal and my pen. Yeah. Okay. So, I got my treats. And what about a toy? Yeah. Do some toys. And I guess that's it. What about a leash? You may want to be practice something on a leash. At this stage of my puppy's training, this is 17 months old and I never really put a collar on around the house, but I always have a collar hung up in the building that I can put on for training because it's a great way to reminder of the collar grab game, building value for that. It's a great way to restrain her. I love training a dog with a collar on. So, leash and collar, and you may or may not need the leash, but you've got to make sure that that's on your equipment checklist. What toy you're going to use to relationship build at the beginning and what toy you're going to use for your balance breaks or game. You may not have a dog who loves toys, but what game. And if you're not sure about balance breaks, I've got a video on YouTube all about balance breaks. Now, things that you're not going to think so much about is number one, that journal and pen. Thank you for a reminder. Number two, a video camera. Come on, everyone's got a

phone. A phone and you can get a cheap little tripod to put that phone on. I actually have several of them. So, you definitely want to, anytime you're training any mechanical skill, you want to video your training. All right. I want to hear from those of you, if you love video your training or Susan, there's no way I would ever video my training. I would like to hear from you. Okay. Number seven, your warmup planned. So, you will have a list of things. I like to engage my dog's brain and get their body warmed up. Now the body warmup, depending on what you're going to do, it may just be, you know, a quick little walk around. If you're doing something that's more physical, it might be more demanding than that. Early on, or it could be early and often. I love introducing It's Your Choice as part of the brain work. I always do this with puppies. I always do this with rescue dogs. And I do this with dogs who are, you know, kind of pushy in their training. We'll start with a game of It's Your Choice so that when I've got cookies in my hand and I'm going to deliver them, that I don't get a dog who's impatient. I've warmed it up at first. Warm up body, warm up brain, write it in your notes. What's your plan? And it could be the same for most of your training sessions. It doesn't have to be that dramatically different. Although the body warmup will be dependent upon what it is that you're going to be training in the actual session. Okay. We're getting down to it. Number eight is what is the criteria of the behavior you're training? What are you going to accept? I'm going to say good or click. What does correct look like? You've got to know that before you start training it. So, if you're training something as simple as a sit, is it with the front feet splayed out? Is it the butt part up in the air? Is it, what does that sit look like? Is something as simple as sit has got criteria. But also, this is so important. Not only what does correct look like, what does incorrect look like? You better know that upfront because your dog will be offering you behaviors or may or may not be that you aren't going to want. Let's say you're shaping a sit and every time your dog sits, they bark at you. If you click and reward that, that's what we call a cheap behavior. It's coming along for the ride. Anytime you say the word sit, you are going to get sit and bark. Kind of like a park and bark, right? That the dog is going to just do it because it's a cheap behavior. So, know you've got a dog that tends to bark, then I want to shape behaviors without that.

Or if I'm teaching say my dog to target their nose to something, a lot of dogs will bring their paw and their nose along that paw being the cheap behavior. Know what you don't want. Super important when you are training any behavior. Just have it in the back of your mind. This is going to make it icky. If I bring this along, I don't want it. And if we're doing something like agility, it could be as simple as what's the dog's head position. For example, when I'm training a threadle, a fancy behavior and dog agility, I don't want my dog to look at me. So, that's something I'm really cognizant of when I'm training threadles that my dog's eyes don't come off their job onto me. Okay. Now, number nine, the ever important, you must know how you're going to manipulate your environment to create success for your dog. And if you aren't sure what I mean, go to episode number 44 where I talk about stages of learning and how you change the environment to challenge the dog or set the dog up for success. And also check out podcast episode number six, an early on one where I talk about all about the art of manipulation. Success can be achieved so much faster if the environment doesn't present other distractions or other options for the dog. So, they go, oh, there's a pail on the ground. Obviously you want me to put my feet in that or put my paws on that or put my head in that. So, they'll be doing things with that pail. But if there's a pail and a ball and a pylon and a fence and another dog and some cookies and some like, there's too many options. So, manipulating your environment, so important when you're training. Okay. Number 10, review your training, journal your successes, look at your video, and then put a plan of action. It could be rudimentary. Don't go crazy. It doesn't have to take, you're not writing a book. Just what will I do differently next time? Okay. A checklist that's going to exponentially improve your dog training because you're just doing things in order. Like chaos isn't going to bring success the way structure and order will. And we're making it super easy for you. We're giving you a downloadable copy of this checklist you can have for yourself. Just check the link in the show notes. And if you're watching this on YouTube, you'll find that link in the description. I'll see you next time here on Shaped by Dog. Now he's in a hurry because apparently he hasn't hit the subscribe button and he's got a lot further to go than you do. Go ahead and hit the subscribe button now, turning on that notification bell so

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