How To Train Your Dog To Listen Without Treats. In this dog training tutorial, I show you how to teach your dog an extremely important concept that is often times overlooked in dog training classes – The concept of teaching your dog to WANT to do as you ask, even if you don’t have treats toys or anything the dog wants on your person.
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Great to see Another training video. Pretty much the same approach I use:) as soon as they associate the training with something realy positive, they will be hyped and motivated to do exercises with time, even tho they can’t see any reward nearby.
This is a great tutorial for owners. I have found through trial and error that balancing this with negative punishment makes it a stronger behavior that is learned faster. (If dog checks in with you first and listens to a request, gains access to thing, if dog impulsively lunges for thing, or doesn’t do request, loses access/gets further away. Ive found this to be super helpful for very distracted hyper dogs on walks that don’t care about anything you might have, or REALLY want to move towards person/dog, and also for teaching “leave it” and recall away from distraction. (Call dog while moving toward distraction, if ignores distraction gets removed/blocked, if listens gets immediate access to distraction.
I like to use errorless learning for my training plans
oh thats really useful, thanks! have already been using environmental rewards (gets to go through gate when she’s waited successfully, ask her for something before i let her off leash etc) but i can see how to do that in a far more purposeful way!!
Thanks again. It is an interesting exercise: doing a behavior with a food distraction and a kind of ‘leave it’ and variety because of the food delivery. A kind of three in one. I like to add this one to our training list. How do you manage to keep changing things up?
“hey Bubu” 😀 How owners talk to dogs is the most adorable thing. 🙂 We used a similar method to teach our dog to stay no matter what and not to run after treats. But to take this dame outside and teach him to “ask for our permission” before exploring is actually a nice idea! Thank you!
Yes she is also called Bubu and Splashers
I have encountered so many customers that didn’t want to use positive reinforcement or treats to train their dog because they were afraid of their dogs behaviors becoming dependent on them, or that it counted as bribery. Showing people that treats are only used to shape, condition and strengthen behaviors but CAN be phased out is extremely important, and as you said, often skipped in positive reinforcement training classes. Your spiel at the end about how it is essentially training them that they have to listen to you to get full access to the environment is especially helpful. I recommend this channel to so many people who are confused about the basics of training!
I have sent links to this channel to everyone who asks me about dogs or who I’ve heard good a new puppy. This is the best channel I’ve found for dog training.
I agree, I really also get bothered when people think using food with reactivity and aggression just “distracts” the dog … Often times Ill explain the process and then the client will go back again to seeing the food as a distraction… Of course it can be used like that but that wont do any training… I edited out a longer version of this video, that Im not saying you ALWAYS have to MAKE dogs do something for you to get what they want… Some people also interpret it that way… as being overly controlling, I hope no one took it that way. I also left out that this is based on the Premack Principle. And the concept of the ability to condition dogs to prefer doing things with you over the things they used to like doing. Reinforcement is fluid and so changeable
What is shaping please?
@anne marks, shaping a behavior… I suppose an example would be the best explanation.
Imagine you want your dog to lie down. You can “mark” (click or say yes) and reward when your dog moves his front feet forward a little bit. Each time you ask for just a little bit more until they are laying down. You can essentially do that with anything you want to teach your dog.
RR830 thank you 😀
Splash just gazes at you waiting for the next command. She is so focused! Love the 3 sitting still and waiting on the sofa, awwwww.
Thank you so so much for this video. I went to a dog training class and asked the trainer personally how to train my puppy how to do tricks without food. They just told me to space out the treats so they don’t expect a treat every time. I did this with my pup and she still won’t do it without a treat. She has to see that there is a treat in my hand first and then will do as many tricks as I want.
youre welcome
This was so simple and yet so crucial and a good reminder. I think this specific training would be great for my pup who has been learning so much but very much needs more of this reinforcement. Tx, you inspire. keep sharing = Caring, blessings.
I just gotta brag about my pup a little.
I just watched this video, never tried this before, but I thought “what the heck he’s good with leave it” so I went straight to hard mode and threw some of his favorite treats on the floor, showed him I didn’t have anything, asked him to sit, and he nailed it on the first try. Absolute champion!!
He’s only 5 months old too, I knew Belgian Tervurens are supposed to be smart, but God damn!
Is it really smart though if he doesn’t take the food that is easily available to him? I consider dog training to be tricking the dog to THINK that listening to us is preferable, even if it actually isn’t. I think people very obviously confuse intelligence with being easy to train, but those two are not always the same thing.
@ActiveAnimals How is that not intelligence? He knows that going for the food right away will result in me covering it up, and he will have to wait longer to get it, so he just listens to what I ask of him so he knows he’ll get it in the quickest way possible.
He knows a default “leave it” because he knows that leaving things on the floor alone means he’ll get a better reward.
So yes, easily trainable= intelligent.
I mean, isn’t quick to comprehend the very definition of intelligence? How would you define being intelligent?
Well done! Smart dog and smart training together create amazing things!!!!
Very informative and well done.
Premack is so powerful. Once they get the concept it takes their responses to the next level. The more they want the thing the better and sharper they respond. Magic.
Yeah it’s like a Jedi mind trick. One of my fav techniques
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You are so good at explaining things!!
I thought those dogs on the sofa were fake but they started moving 😂
Same!
Heh that’s easy to think when they’re so still 😅. They’re just very well behaved dogs. I’ve watched quite a few of her videos and they’re so darn well behaved!
Hi. I tried this with my 4 month old pup. I used her bowl which has leftover of kibbles in it( she doesn’t like kibbles. she does nothing for kibbles). I put a piece of cucumber and did this exercise. I noticed that it took quite long to eat the cucumber. then I moved to chicken added in the bowl. I think she did pretty good. Then I finally noticed that she was also eating kibbles. by the end of the training, she ate all the kibbles. It worked like a magic! actually unbelievable.I am not sure it is OK to do this exercise like this. could be confusing to her?
Im not exactly sure what you mean. If the training you are doing is getting the behavior you want and the dog doesnt look stressed or unhappy then its not confusing.
I think that the best use of this video (for me, at least) is to teach the dog about the concept of permission to do something, not about the food itself necessarily. This is something that I didn’t realize when I first watched it but I do now because of you mentioning it in your video about high distraction recalls.
Yeah, I guess I made the title like that because often people dont understand how to train dogs to listen when they dont have food on them
Thanks Emily, we will try this exercice with my australian sheperd Miya❤
I’m amazed at the dogs on the couch and how nice they are and not being a distraction and after some of those treats.. you have a real gift… 🎁
The three are sitting very politely …hats of to you for training them so well!