[nagdu] Find the stairs

[minh ha]

Thank you. These are really good suggestions. I've definitely been
clickering her to specifically stairs/other places on campus as part
of specific routes, but I'm thinking as I get more comfortable with
working her around campus, I might want to take a different stair case
to get to where I need to go. In this case, I just would like the
option to tell her "find the stairs" and have her find them without me
clickering her to them before. I guess what I'm saying is I want to
cement the general idea of stairs n her mind. Stairs = lavish reward
and all that.

Thanks,
Minh

On 8/23/13, Shannon Dyer <solsticesinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty
recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on
their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible." T. E. Lawrence