ICAWC 2015 - Reinforcing the Canine Human Bond Through Training - Alasdair Bunyan
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The working relationship between the handler and the dog, and the dog’s understanding of the concept of training should be built prior to any intense behavioural modification taking place. Alasdair will discuss the working relationship fundamentals and then the prime behaviours that should be implemented before any behavioural modification takes place.
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ICAWC 2015 - Reinforcing the Canine Human Bond Through Training - Alasdair Bunyan
- 1. Reinforcing the Canine Bond Through Training Alasdair Bunyan Assistant Head of Behaviour and Training
- 2. Our Baseline For Care • Health care - veterinary program • Nutrition - food and vitamins • Environment – social requirements • Behaviour management - training and enrichment
- 3. The Quality of Care We Provide Ensures Their Quality of Life
- 4. Building a Relationship The Building Blocks to Success
- 5. “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” C.M. Stunich, Losing Me, Finding You.
- 6. My 4 Essential Parts a Successful Relationship • Trust • Respect • Empathy • Clear Communication
- 7. Without a Relationship Lack of: • Trust • Empathy • Support • Feelings, off day. • Knowledge of needs, preferences
- 8. Dogs are hardwired to socially connect and form relationships.
- 9. The Relationship • Fun • Supportive • Reinforcing • Comforting • Understanding
- 10. But Why Train? Improves: • Physical exercise • Communication • Mental stimulation - good training program & enrichment • Cooperative behaviour between handler and dog. • Specific behavioural problems?
- 11. Behavioural Problems The building of the foundation and the training of fundamental behaviours will empower the dog to be able to ignore provoking stimuli and respond with new default behaviours.
- 12. The Concept of Training • Do dogs understand training? • How do we teach that concept? • What knowledge and foundation requirements are needed?
- 13. What is Required as a Baseline? • Concentration • Focus • Understanding of reinforcers • Trust • Supportive relationship • Desire to interact • Leadership • Motivation
- 14. Leadership/Guidance A leader – • Knows what direction to take. • Has an overall plan • Builds confidence, is trustable and supports • Keeps their partner safe
- 15. Motivation • Reinforcers are a priority to the success of any future training sessions. • Minimal reinforcers = minimal training success.
- 16. Understanding Motivation • All animals seek to control their environment • “What’s in it for me?” • Past consequences create motivation for behaviour. • Dogs select stimuli that are important to them - not the trainer.
- 17. Control Your Training Environment • Social (People, other dogs, animals) • Scents • Tactile • Toys • Food
- 18. Train to Learn, Learn to Train Foundations, Concepts and Reinforcement
- 19. Many undertake the building of a great tower but spend so little time and effort on the foundation that the foundation would not even support the building of a small hut.
- 20. Establishing Operations (What Works & When) • Motivation • Deprivation • Satiation
- 21. Building the Foundation • Reinforcer assessment • Building the bank account • Response to name • Attention (stationary and movement) • Playing together • Communication system • Offering of behaviour
- 22. What is Reinforcement? • Personal to each individual. • What an individual dogs enjoys. • What an individual dog will work for. • Can be manipulated.
- 23. Reinforcer Assessment • Likes & Dislikes – Tactile – Food – Play – Environmental
- 25. Food Bowls • Each piece of food could be used as a reinforcer. • 1/3 of food = bowl • 1/3 of food = toys • 1/3 of food = training
- 26. How Full is Your Bank Account?
- 27. Reinforcement vs. Rewards • Non emotional • Strengthens behaviour • Directly increases behaviour • Pin points specific behaviour. • Can be painful (Sidman) • Reinforcement • Reward • Can be given at anytime • Emotionally driven • Targets the dog not the behaviour
- 28. Response to Name • Positive association • Beware of learned irrelevance
- 29. Attention and Focus • All learning begins with attention • Learned skill, built on mutual communication. • Release cue • Built on reinforcement
- 30. Play, It’s Personal • Empathetic • Reciprocal • Fun for both • Give and take Please click the following link to view the video https://youtu.be/k6hLBlTCSAo Please click the following link to view the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoVIt2ad7zE
- 31. 31 Toys Breed Related • Tug toys – strength games • Balls – chase • Squeaky - killing
- 32. The Communication System • Do not take it for granted the the dog will be ok with the event marker. • Building the association • Clear and consistent sound • Has no history, un-poisoned.
- 33. Click vs Verbal “Research in neurophysiology has identified the kinds of stimuli—bright lights, sudden sharp sounds—that reach the amygdala first, before reaching the cortex or thinking part of the brain. The click is that kind of stimulus” K. Pryor. A decrease of over 1/3 in training time for the clicker as compared to the verbal condition group. (Wood, 2008)
- 34. A Clear System • Consequences drive behaviour, not the animals ability to reason and think. • Suggests why the clicker is more effective than a voice marker as it is processed not in the cortex but the reptilian part of the brain which controls, breathing, balance and body temperature.
- 35. Keep Going Signal Please click the following link to view the video https://youtu.be/FPSOdD35jfw
- 36. Sometimes the best training is a cup of tea (Pryor, 2014)
- 37. The Illusion of Choice • Manipulation of environment and reinforcers to enable the dog to make the choice YOU want. • The dog should feel that the choice is theirs.
- 38. The Question of Jackpots • Affect the overall tendency of the animal to keep playing the game. • Dogs may think the click finishes not only the behaviour but when reinforced – the training. • Giving a big jackpot triggers variability.
- 39. Setting Up for Success Environmental controls • Where is best for the dog • Where is best for the handler
- 40. Fundamentals to Build Fluencies • The groundwork to all behaviours required in the future. • Known behaviours built on reinforcement that can be called upon in the future. • Default behaviours
- 41. Fluency Behaviours • Targeting • Handling & Grooming • Retrieving • Walking on a loose lead • Settle • Muzzle and Comfy Cone
- 42. The Concept of Targeting Paw, nose, body part to: • Hand, leg, platform • Away from handler Targeting to Different Points Targeting Muzzle Please click the following link to view the video https://youtu.be/A6tKOX8lA88 Please click the following link to view the video https://youtu.be/cgCNKNhHCr4
- 43. Station Training Please click the following link to view the video https://youtu.be/7UjX72eKmls
- 44. • Molding (physical manipulation) • Prompting (hint) • Luring • Targeting • Capturing • Shaping Ways to Get Behaviour
- 45. • The dog may grow to expect assistance. • Frustration due to unfulfilled expectations. • Luring trained as a behaviour? “A dog that can follow a food lure is a dog, not a trained dog” (K. Sdao, 2013)
- 46. The Retrieve
- 47. • Builds the ability to share and interact. • Help stops possessive behaviours developing. • Develops a partnership built on fun. • Using toys in training will prove difficult if the dog will not bring the toy back. • Is the foundation of all other training exercises. The Retrieve
- 48. Retrieve Through Targeting Please click the following link to view the video https://youtu.be/WZQhxDtN0Vg
- 49. Walking on a Loose Lead
- 50. Loose Lead Walking Please click the following link to view the video https://youtu.be/08Uebqaj9FY
- 51. Incompatible Behaviour A previously reactive dog that is then taught heeling on a loose lead will enables the reactive dog to pass another dog as its full attention is now on the handler as a replacement behaviour has been taught.
- 52. It Is Always a Work In Progress Please click the following link to view the video https://youtu.be/RRFDQBPY2JI
Editor's Notes
- Sometimes we expect dog to start secondary school without every going to primary.
- What are your thoughts on what makes a successful relationship?
- What do you consider to be important to a relationship? Feedback required.
- What makes up a strong relationship
- Training is so much easier is the primary reasons are implemented to create healthy and contented animals.
- Breed Specific Exercises Collies – ability to take cues from the handler while distractions are present. Toy/food is placed away from the handler during training.
- All animals can learn, but training is a concept that must be taught
- What are your thoughts on baseline requirements?
- Without leadership there would be no direction and progress.
- Too many times the dog's guardian dictates the reinforcement - it is the learners choice, that is the dog's.
- Competing Motivators Environments also dictate what reinforcer will be successful. Antecedent arrangement
- Definition - events that alter the value of a reinforcer. Relevant in dog training as the trainer must be highly aware of the appropriateness of each reinforcer and its effectiveness in a certain situation or at a certain time. Reinforcement is at the core of operant conditioning but reinforcement fails if you do not understand what is reinforcing to the individual dog.
- Reinforcements are personal to each individual. The strength/power and timing of the reinforcement will determine whether the behaviour will be repeated in the future. "You get what you reinforce not what you want" - Bob Bailey
- Reinforcement Sampling Although this may sound extremely bizarre to you, there is some evidence to suggest that animals actually habituate to a reward. If you always use the same type of reinforcer during training and the dog experiences a number of rewards in a row, even though the dog may still be very hungry, responses will become less vigorous simply because he is habituating to the same old reward. Use various types of rewards in your training to avoid this strange decrease in your dog’s enthusiasm (Reid, 2012)
- Reinforcement is on going. Bank accounts go down but you need to keep paying in Free interactions. Every withdrawal will weaken the relationship. Any empty account creates mistrust.
- Most owners reward
- The event marker
- During training, if it is going badly – just finish, don’t keep going
- Use a jackpot to make the dog stop doing the same error, over and over.
- Definition: articulacy, facility, ability to, easily and accurately, command of……
- Think of these as default behaviours, behaviours the dog can call upon when stuck.
- Prompt - (back-up information to help your dog understand the cue and perform the behaviour Lure - (hands-off method of guiding the dog through a behaviour. For example, a food lure can be used to guide a dog from a sit into a down. Lures are usually food, but they may also be target sticks or anything else the dog will follow.
- Luring is an advanced skill
- Use lots of facial reinforcers, use you body to convey pleasure and remain relaxed and happy.