threshold training Archives - Karen Pryor Academy https://karenpryoracademy.com/tag/threshold-training/ Karen Pryor Academy Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:45:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 Teach a Hold https://karenpryoracademy.com/teach-a-hold/ https://karenpryoracademy.com/teach-a-hold/#respond Wed, 07 Jul 2021 19:52:41 +0000 https://karenpryoracademy.com/?p=16650 Teaching your dog to hold an object builds a solid foundation for teaching advanced behaviors for dog sports, such as retrieve. To teach the hold behavior, choose an object that your dog likes and hold it in front of your dog’s muzzle. Click and treat when your dog shows any interest in the object. Once the dog understands that interacting with the object is rewarding, slowly increase the criteria until the dog is nosing the object and, eventually, putting his mouth on it. Remember: never put the object into the dog's mouth. The dog should grab the object willingly.

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Teaching your dog to hold an object builds a solid foundation for teaching advanced behaviors for dog sports, such as retrieve. To teach the hold behavior, choose an object that your dog likes and hold it in front of your dog’s muzzle. Click and treat when your dog shows any interest in the object. Once the dog understands that interacting with the object is rewarding, slowly increase the criteria until the dog is nosing the object and, eventually, putting his mouth on it. Remember: never put the object into the dog's mouth. The dog should grab the object willingly.

In this video, KPA CTP Carol Milner is clicking and rewarding her dog Odie for putting his mouth on a dumbbell. Once Odie is mouthing the dumbbell consistently, Carol will teach him to bite down on the dumbbell and, eventually, hold the dumbbell in his mouth. At that point, Carol will give the hold behavior a verbal cue, such as “hold.”

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