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Originally posted by Gatsby
And, for your Schutzhund enthusiasts out there who assume motivational training for competition could never work, there's a book on it:
Schutzhund Obedience: Training in Drive by Dildei and Booth. The original book on motivational Schutzhund training, it is an excellent guide to one type of motivational training and well worth reading. |
The above is basically clicker training without the clicker! :) It does "work".....and I have several HOT/Multi-HIT/Multi-SchH3's to back it up too :)
The PROBLEM I see with the entire arguement is those who think that when using motivation to imprint (and I'm not sure why you would use anything BUT motivation to condition responses) comes in the PROOFING phase.
I WILL apply corrections for disobediences in the proofing phase.....whereas; the C/T trainers tend to be the ones blasting trainers who DO choose to proof our dogs with compulsion.
Again.....it comes down to *balance*. You have the compulsion-based community calling motivational methods "bribary" and you have the motivation-only subscribers screaming "abuse" when a dog receives a correction.
Radicals on BOTH sides..... Find the happy medium and go from there.