tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901844543243405919.post1962372512816384453..comments2024-03-08T22:33:35.306-08:00Comments on Exercise Finished: Defining "corrections"tervnmalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16059486741282674657noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901844543243405919.post-87900265553234185282011-07-28T05:14:17.800-07:002011-07-28T05:14:17.800-07:00Melinda, I am thoroughly enjoying your on-going sa...Melinda, I am thoroughly enjoying your on-going saga of The Retraining of Phoenix, and continue to share the links, hoping that I can help spread your story farther and wider. What you are going through is a problem I've had people ask for help with all over the country, and I've certainly been through some of it myself over the many years of competing in obedience. "Correction" is such a loaded word for so many people and I hope your explanation will help more people understand that corrections don't have to be cruel and painful, but simply informative.Adele@NorthfieldDogTraininghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14115901965242548576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901844543243405919.post-1065732102279438582011-07-28T05:13:11.476-07:002011-07-28T05:13:11.476-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Adele@NorthfieldDogTraininghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14115901965242548576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901844543243405919.post-14739906082054274102011-07-27T17:31:59.328-07:002011-07-27T17:31:59.328-07:00I tend to think of corrections as "helping&qu...I tend to think of corrections as "helping". With my previous dog, soemetimes he would choose not to sit on command, for example. And when that happened, I would gently but firmly help him to sit. As if he had truly lost his mind and forgotten how. Being helped like that was actually helpful in cases where he was honestly confused. But in cases where he was trying to exercise thhe option of not complying with a known command, I always got the impression that he found being helped humiliating. <br /><br />That dog I clicker trained the retrieve, and the only correction he ever needed his whole life was to be helped once, by having me walk out to the dumbbell, point at it and say take it. It was a different place, very busy, and he was either uncertain because of the setting or testing whether it was optional. In any case, that cleared it up for him.<br /><br />My current dog could not learn a formal retrieve thru clicker gaining, and I had to take an entirely different approach. But then he's a very different dog!Jenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04355423546969862399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901844543243405919.post-62056252440928565042011-07-27T14:56:14.885-07:002011-07-27T14:56:14.885-07:00Do I hear crickets???? ;)
I think I was afraid to...Do I hear crickets???? ;)<br /><br />I think I was afraid to correct Falkor for a long time. And a correction for him can be as simply as saying "Opps not quite right". <br /><br />Falkor seems much happier now that I can make things clearer for him!Jennifer H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18122918066456934977noreply@blogger.com