Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Group Crate
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
Obviously there was a doubt in my mind about Boon remaining in the crate while I left with Logan. THAT doubt should have been my cue to close the gate on her crate, preventing her leaving, OR to have someone stand nearby and reward OFTEN instead of asking ( a distracted person) to correct Boon by closing the gate if she stepped out. THIS is an example of poor training. I allowed my goal of practicing her open door crate behavior in a positive way to be over-ridden by my need to multi-task. The goal is ZERO error learning. In this case previous training had set Boon up for success, my absent minded decision and lack of proper criteria and planning resulted in a session ending with a mistake instead of a success! Proper planning and criteria setting insures the session to end with the desired behavior!
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Oh Sheila! Thank you for sharing this video ... how often we have all been here. A great refresher for all of us on the importance of setting criteria and remembering that everything we do impacts our training in one way or another. That said ... what a nice wait she did have in her crate (and all of them actually) with all the distractions going on
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