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i’m chris. i hunt mushrooms professionally and would like to add truffles to the repertoire. my puppy, daisy, and i live with my wife, annie, and two sons, samson (5) and franklin (2), near durango, colorado.
daisy’s mom is healer/lab mix. her dad is unknown. her estimated birthday was june 1, 2014. daisy likes to play, mouth everything and sniff around. she had early crate training with her young siblings and sleeps in her crate. ceasar milan and i think she should be crated more because she is not quite 100% house trained and hard to keep tabs on. annie thinks otherwise. daisy gets cold easily and does not like to be outside in the night or morning. maybe a sweater? she has been swimming a little bit in lake and river.
she is great with the boys, but the boys don’t listen to us and so they don’t correct (or properly ignore) her nipping and rough play. i don’t suppose you train kids too?
more video coming below of some of our sessions. i am still trying to figure out holding the camera and clicker and treating. if i mention traci or “how traci does it,” she is our local trainer. we have had two of four weekly puppy manners classes. if i mention ceasar, you know who i am talking about.
what we have been working on for the last two weeks:
she is good with
sitdown/lay down – she occasionally refuses down or gets up immediately after the click. she was one of the more dominant puppies in her litter.
leave it – she knows what we mean when she is chewing on the wrong thing, but i worry about porcupine/snake encounters. traci started us with a slim jim in a closed hand and clicking and treating when she leaves that, but that game is old to her. she knows whats up and ignores the slim jim. we need a new, more advanced variation for this.
stay close – we have been doing this on and off leash and it is going good, but i feel like she stays close only because she is young and wants the treats. she dislikes the leash and i am unsure how much to use it. traci made us get a harness for the “come” exercise.
touch/shake – we just started this yesterday and she is great at it. after a few, she started using her paw rather than her nose, so i added the “shake” verbal command. so far i have been clicking and treating nose or paw. i am wondering if i need to be more precise about which of those i want.
i am interested in good “we are done with training” signal/command and a good “lay in your bed/crate” exercise to get her to go in there on her own.
touch/shake:
and “focus”/eye contact
also saw this amazing clicker video about barking. does this really work to prevent barking?
1. shake/nose – now all she does is shake. there is hardly any nose touch. not sure how to get the nose touch back and get her to differentiate.
2. leave it – i think distance is the issue, not duration. can you please explain how to teach leave it, as i do not know where to go from here. do i still use a slim jim? also, i feel like how to say “no” is pretty important at this point. do you care to elaborate on this?
3. what would greatly help me is a sample schedule so i know how often to work her and when and which exercises are most important for truffling. is it o.k. to mix commands in a session or should it be one command for each session? traci said never say a command more than once. what do you do when she does not do a command?
if some of these things are beyond the scope of your instruction, please indicate that i am on my own on those topics.
thank you,
chrisgot it. that is definitely helpful.
good videos. today i was able to make two fingers a nose touch. we will keep working on it.
figured out increasing “leave it” distance. worked on “stay close” on and off leash.
here is some recall. how to do this with one person?
here is down and touch (nose)
i realize my treat is a little slow after click. trying to find the perfect treat (that isn’t outrageously expensive) for holding in your clicker hand. that’s important, right, a few treats in the clicker hand ready to drop? learning every day!
thank you. i will be posting video of more sit stay touch and recall, and also a video of all my supplies by tomorrow night.
the truffle oil arrived. it was well coated all over the inside of the baggie. i opened the bottle for a whiff and the smell is very faint. i can hardly tell it’s more than just oil. how should i store it?it’s in it’s baggie in the fridge right now.
as for treats – i want a certain size and to not have to prepare (cut) it. also want it to be moist but clean so i don’t need a plastic liner in my treat bag or to have to worry about it sitting in the treat bag over night at room temp. cheese and hot dogs are fine, but require preparation and refrigeration. i want to grab a handful and go. the zukes minis are great and higher value to her than cheese, but expensive. i am looking at becoming a distributor. having the treat bag ready at all times is worth the extra expense to me.
oh and all of her nose touches are open mouthed. ?
sorry i’m late. chanterelles had me out camping. we are doing many (5-9) short (3-10 min) sessions every day.
training supplies video:
i use kibble for her training rewards when i feel she has not eaten enough kibble otherwise. it seems to make her eat more kibble when we are not training, which is good. can you tell me how you do your feeding and go to bed rituals? she never eats much when i feed her, but eventually gets around to it. we leave it in her crate.
some items not shown in the video:
a better leash
marking flags
planter pots of all sizes
cow tracheas
10 acres. half of it is forested.
and these items:
[img]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1LkbgKI2qCGRVo5Z1FINTZ2aUU[/img]here is part of a session from yesterday:
it is taking about half an hour of upload per minute of video using high speed wifi and youtube mobile app. do you think vimeo is any better? if you are looking for 4-5 minute videos, we are going to have to figure out a better way.
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