Positive interruptors are the best.
If you’re doing clicker trainer or force free training, it’s an essential tool for behavior management.
Here’s how it goes:
You say your word (something snappy, not their name), they stop whatever they’re doing to stare at you and run towards you and get a treat. It’s a good treat. Better than whatever they were doing.
You start by just saying your made up word in a low distraction environment while the dog knows you have treats and if the dog looks at you, great, click and treat, if not, make some interesting noises with your mouth as a lure. He doesn’t even have to make eye contact, just look slightly towards you. Soon he’ll get to eye lock.
Practice like that for a while until you get consistent eye contact, then you can build up distractions. A person looking away, a person looking at her, a person calling to her, a person making kissy noises and squatting, a person offering a treat, a treat sitting unattended on the ground, first far away, then closer, a toy sitting a cross the room, a moving toy, barking on a tv turned way down, then louder, then real barking
Your dog can be distracted from all of these and more with one word that promises a treat.
Use it instead of no, and reward your dog for stopping the bad behavior instead of just yelling.
Use it to distract a panicked, barking dog.
It’s my favorite thing I’ve ever taught a dog, and its essential for both my service dog in training and my reactive dog.
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