[nagdu] Find the stairs

[Shannon Dyer]

Hi.

Whenever I teach Ace to find something, I walk him up to the object, and praise him like crazy. "You found the stairs! What a good boy! Yay for the stairs!" I imagine you get my drift. Then, I back away from it by about fifteen feet, and encourage him to find the thing again. When he does, he gets praised lavishly once again. I keep doing this, until he's familiar with the concept.

If you're wanting to target very specific flights of stairs, I would recommend teaching it to her the same way you'd teach any other "find". If she starts showing you stairs you don't really want, you could say something like, "Good girl, but not now." Then, direct her to keep moving.

Good luck with the upcoming semester.

Shannon and Ace
On Aug 23, 2013, at 4:24 PM, minh ha <minh.ha927 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm moving back to campus in a week and my school has a million and a
> half flights of stairs all over campus. Viva does amazingly on stairs,
> but the only problem is her understanding of the word "stairs" isn't
> as strong as I like it to be. She was exposed to it at GDB and she was
> able to find a couple of flights of stairs during my training, but now
> that we're home, she doesn't seem to understand what I want. I was
> wondering what suggestions you guys have for teaching this to her? I
> was thinking of finding a bunch of stairs and clicker her while saying
> the word stairs, but the only issue I can see with that is she'll
> bring me to every single flight of stairs that we pass, which would
> get annoying pretty quick. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Cheers,
> Minh
> 
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