[NAGDU] food rewards and guidework

[Terri]

I'd also love to listen to the recording!
Terri &Julie 😎❤️🦮






Monday, September 20, 2021, 8:44 AM -0700 from nagdu at nfbnet.org  <nagdu at nfbnet.org>:
>Is there a recording of this demonstration or talk?  I am very interested in getting as much information from different sources.  Thank you so much.  Andy and Leroy
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>Subject: [NAGDU] food rewards and guidework
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>Greetings, wag wag, and the like!
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>First, Mike Hingson, you made a great presentation yesterday on mutual trust between our dogs and ourselves.
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>Second, if I heard correctly, Mike suggested that there are times when 
>you can use a food reward during guidework.  If I'm wrong, please 
>correct me.  If I'm right, can anybody tell me what situations might be 
>good for that?  I was leery of clicker training when I first heard of 
>Seeing Eye doing it because of the food involved, but, other than 
>teaching my dog to take me to a particular place or thing, I did not use 
>the clicker, and I did not use food at any time as a work reward.  Since 
>class in 2018, I've used food as a reward only during the bit of clicker 
>training I've done--for example, in trying to get him to put his nose on 
>the knob of the front door.
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>I was leery of clicker training because, as you might expect, I wondered 
>how long that training would stick after the food ran out.  Praise is at 
>least something I always have, with no danger of putting it in my pocket 
>for the trip.  I've also seen that, with the doorknob I used the clicker 
>for, he will eventually respond to the magic phrase associated with the 
>clicker, but without the food and the clicker I almost always have to 
>use it two or three times.
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>What do people think?  Am I missing something?
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>Best!
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>Al
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