I found this interesting “dogs who had the opportunity to observe a demonstrator dog perform the new exercises were significantly more likely to succeed at the same task when asked to perform it. “
At my training center, AutumnGold, it is not unusual to enroll students who live with and train more than one dog. A common question that these clients have is how to arrange their training sessions to allow them to train one dog while the other dog “waits his or her turn”. In most of these cases, the student laments that the dog who is not chosen for training becomes upset, does not enjoy being isolated or confined, and may even show some separation stress or frustration with the overall unfairness (in their opinion) of the entire situation.
Or, if they are clever, as my four dogs appear to be, they attempt to all participate in the training session simultaneously.
I KNOW YOU GUYS LOVE TO TRAIN, BUT THIS DOES NOT WORK SO WELL.
Over the years, my personal solution to this problem has been to teach each of our dogs to stay on a pause table located off…
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