How to Train a Dog to Pay Attention | American service pets

How to Train a Dog to Pay Attention. American service pets.

 In this article i'm tell you how to train your dog. So, the starting point for the attention getting exercise is to have a treat, it usually works easiest with treat, but you can also use a toy, and you're going to lure his attention, I have it. I'm going to say his name and bring the treat up to my face. I'm going to reward him immediately as soon as soon as I get a split second of eye contact or, sort of, face contact. It doesn't have to be direct eye contact. But it's helpful if you do bring the treat up  to your eyes.

 

 Spike (kissing sound).So you'll notice that he didn't look up the first time,that I gave him his name. So, instead of repeating his name, I just made some little distracting noises like a little kissy noise or a tongue  click. I brought the treat back up to his nose to direct him back up to my face again. For some dogs, if they're really food motivated, a quicker movement is better. But for Spike, it seems like he responds better to a slower movement up to my face.Spike... So be nice and patient, it doesn't matter if he messes up a few times, we'll only reward him. when he does a behavior that we want , which is looking up at our face.

 

 So I'm just looking for him to look up at my face, Spike. And clearly he's just following the treat at this point of the exercise, and that's fine. That's all we want to teach him to look in the general direction of our face, when he hears that word. Spike! Good Boy! Spike! Good Boy!. You'll notice how he sometimes paws me to get the treat, you'll just ignore that behavior. If they end up jumping on you when you're when you're about to start to reward them, just start over. You know that you're ready to move on to the next step when you have high success rate.

STEP 2

 Out of the repetitions you're doing, so if you're doing 5 repetitions at a time, or 10 repetitions,You should have 4 out of 5 or 9 out of 10 repetitions where they're successfully looking up at you every time you bring the food up to your face. Good...so make sure you're not repetitively saying their name like "Spike, Spike, Spike, Spike, Spike" until you get his attention. What's going to happen if you repeat their name too many times without connecting with the eye contact, and the reward, is that it starts to lose their meaning, starts to lose meaning of the word. So, you're actually diluting the affect of the command.

 

 You want to make sure that when you say you have some way of reinforcing him to look at you Whether it's going back to luring them back up to your face or making some sort of a kissing noise of tongue click. Like that "Spike! (Kissing noises) Good boy! Spike!" Good boy, good, that time you found it at the kissing...Spike! Good boy! So, the third step here is going to be where we use the food as a distraction, and hold it out and expect the dog to look away from the food and make eye contact with you. This is a little bit harder, so, you definitely want to make sure you're getting success at step 2 before moving on. And then you end up feeding them the treat that they had to look away from.

 This is helpful that we're learning in distraction, even if I see something that's interesting, If I look at you I'll still get the reward, or something better. If they had done something especially good, that was really hard for them, and challenging and you want to make an impact on them. You can do something that they call "Jackpotting" where you're giving the a few treats so it really makes an impression that what they did was good.