Kevin talks about how he uses the term “Natural” in regards to training. The objective is to elicit certain emotional states within a dog so as to work with energy.
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Yes, the risk is that the "negative" (eyes) collapses the elaboration process into a behavior and this could happen before you get to a full blown drive expression, so you don't want to get to this step too soon. The dog is always giving your eyes credit,...read more or reply
Hi Kevin! Hey, that's my dog, Minky the extreme food motivated pit bull @ the NDT seminar @ the Orvis center in Manchester VT a couple summers ago. As you can see, this dog is all muscles - and boy is he attracted to Kevin B! Mink is a super social, ...read more or reply
Exactly, all R cares about is whether he ends up in a grounded state or not and that becomes in his mind WHAT KILLING A SQUIRREL FEELS LIKE. He has no abstract goal in mind, only to return energy/drive to ground, or neutral. He then gives your "negative" ...read more or reply
Something like this, in more rudimentary terms, finally dawned on me recently. :) My young Border Collie goes into a crouch and starts bark-screaming when he sees a squirrel while he's on leash. I'm working the NDT program and getting R (the dog) to ...read more or reply
Regarding comment 32, you stated that asking the dog for "eyes" when a deer is around should been done at the end of training, is this because asking for "eyes" is an interruption of drive for a dog who cannot fully give its owner all its energy? But for ...read more or reply
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