Dog training Terms: PetSmart Dog Trainer

Musical Chairs with Environmental Cue (Settle)

Once the music stops, the pet parent will take a seat, and the dog will automatically settle. The dog will maintain Sit/Stay in the center of the circle.

P.E.T.S.

P- Paws. E - Ears & Eyes. T - Tail. S - Skin.

Heel with turns, Serpentines and Figure 8's

Practice moving together. The leash is not a steering wheel.

Environmentally Reinforced Barking

Prevent access to environmental stimulation. If a dog barks at a mail person, block the window so your puppy can't see them anymore.

Canine conditioning

Process of acquiring, processing and choosing how to use information. This will build a deeper understanding of the mind and personality of your dog and enhance the functionality of the cues taught in previous courses.

Frustration Barking

Puppies bark when they can't get access to a resource. Try to get puppy to engage in a low level activity.

Sit

Puppy is in a seated position with rear end and both front fee on the floor until released.

Surfer and Trash Raiding

Simplest solution is to manage the situation so that your dog can't practice the behavior. Try to remove temptations for your dog so they can't reward themselves by getting free treats.

Socialization vs. Manner

Socialization occurs socialization period as a puppy. Manners occurs after socialization period when you are desensitizing and counter conditioning.

Puppy Biting

They bit for several reasons: - They could be teething and biting to relieve pain. - a form of play and exploration. - overly tired and/or frustrated Mouthing is how puppies learn about the world.

Shake/Paw

This helps with: - desensitize and counter condition touching or reaching your puppy's paws. Helpful when trimming nails or wiping feet. - Can be a polite greeting. - useful for untangling leashes from puppy's legs. - helpful for putting on a body harness. - Gateway behavior to other fun tricks. - Fun party trick.

Excitement Barking

A Great way to reduce and change behavior is to look at reinforcers that may be driving the behavior.

Marker

A clicker word or sound that indicates your puppy has earned the reward because they did something right. Timing is the most important part of marking. A marker is a training tool only. Discontinue marking when the behavior is done consistently.

Behavior

A desired action your puppy will perform

Down/Stay

A more comfortable position than sit/stay and they should be able to do it for longer periods of time.

Wait

A pause behavior, your puppy could be in any position while performing this. Comes in handy when walking out a door or crossing a street.

Boredom Barking

A puppy that has mental and physical exercise needs met is less likely to vocalize excessively.

Emergency Recall

A special cue that is always paired with a reward to get your dog to return quickly, or prevent them from getting injured.

Release

A word to communicate to you puppy they can stop performing the behavior.

Playing to Learn

Dogs enjoy learning when it's fun.

Jumping up

Dogs jump out of excitement and to get closer to you. It can be a dangerous behavior if it knocks someone down. Sitting is incompatible with jumping. Dogs can't jump when they are sitting.

Leapfrog

Dogs will leap (move) past other participants and their dogs. Your dog must heel past other dogs while other dogs remain in stay.

Stand

Encourage polite husbandry habits making veterinary examinations, grooming, and wiping off paws easier and less stressful.

Peek a Boo

Enhances bond between dog and owner. - Diversifies known cues. - Creates Engagement. - Establishes Trust. - promotes safety.

Greeting a person on a walk/Respectful greeting

First step is to determine if our dogs would like to greet any new human. If so, they need to be respectful. Need to encourage: - calm greetings. - discourage attention seeking behavior. - allows the dog a choice. - makes real life encounters more enjoyable.

Puppy Push ups

Goal is to complete a set of Sit, Down, Sit and then reward.

Walking through a Crowd

Gracefully navigate busy environments.

Stationing on a Mat

Great way to: - encourage your pup to be calm and learn to relax - Work on Strengthening your bond with your puppy. - Add familiarity to an unfamiliar situation. - Provide a way to position your puppy without restraint.

Leave It

Help your puppy control their impulses.

Handling & Desensisitizing

Helps your puppy welcome being handled and build trust in your relationship.

Barking

Make sure to mark and reward quiet and calm behavior.

Hand Target

When your puppy touches their nose to your open palm. This can help move your puppy into close proximity, like when passing someone on a walk.

Color differentiation (yellow vs. blue with diversity)

With both yellow and blue frisbees on the ground, the dog will make physical contact with the color that is cued.

Settle

Your dog is laying down in a calm, relaxed position. Settle is different from down. It does not require the dog to automatic focus.

Place

a multifunctional skill that encourages your do to go to a designated item/place and remain there until released. Could be a mat, bed, towel, kennel, bench, etc. This skill encourages safety, security and structure in a variety of environments.

Object Recognition

acknowledge and indicate the novel object when presented by the pet parent.

Operant Conditioning

any behavior reinforced will be repeated

Shaping

breaking down a behavior into tiny increments and reinforcing the dog at each incremental step until you have reached the full behavior.

Environmental cueing

creates patterns that help your dog in everyday life.

Reading (Down)

Dog will present down when presented with a "down" cue card.

Reading (Sit)

Dog will sit when presented with a "Sit" cue card.

Dog Body Language (Relaxed)

- Soft looking, relaxed eyes. - Relaxed ears in neutral position. - Open, relaxed mouth usually with tongue showing. - Neutral tail carriage, not showing tension. - relaxed by often slightly curved.

Resource Guarding for Certified Behavioral Specialist

- Their are children in the home. - adult in the home cannot commit to management protocals. - unpredictable puppy behavior...Guards random objects. - has a bite history.

Stay-dium Wave

- keep dog in Sit/Stay in the heel position. - 1 at a time will pivot to face your dog and then step back a few steps to end of your leash. - owners return to dogs one at a time, pivot back so your dog is in Heel position. - Calmly release you dog and immediately cue dog to wait. - Pivot in front of dog. - Individually call your dog, one dog at a time, and have them sit in front of you.

Come When Called

3 Rules: 1. If you don't think your puppy will come, then go get them. Don't call them. 2. Do not use Come when Called as a response to unwanted behavior or to call your puppy for tasks that are unpleasant. 3. Keep puppy on a leash when practicing to prevent dining and dashing.

Place and Quiet

Adding distractions to the place cue. This will: - enable environment management. - promote safety. - foster calm. - promote sense of security. - create Space. - Real life for deliveries and guests. - desensitize common cause of overexcitement.

Sit/Stay

After the dog sits, then Stay means freeze regardless of what they are doing.

Potty Training

All about management, supervision, and rewarding desired behavior. Never punish your puppy for an accident, just clean it up immediately. Actively supervise your puppy. Learn puppy's schedule and signals. Mark and reward every time they relieve themselves in acceptable area.

You Choose

An activity where the dog will choose their favorite reward when presented with multiple options. This will increase the success rate of the training sessions.

Reaction to other dogs

Be near another dog without reacting.

Attention Seeking Barking

Best way to prevent is to remove attention anytime they bark. Remove eye contact, turn away from the puppy, or get up and walk away. Yelling only reinforces the barking behavior.

Red light/Green light

Builds reliability on your Heel with distractions.

Fearful barking

Can be reduce by heavily rewarding puppies for incremental exposure to a stimulus, like a person coming over.

Value of Rewards

Can be treats, praise, touch, petting, access to privileges or toys, or play. Important to always acknowledge correct behavior, regardless of the reward.

Intermediate class: 4 D's

Distance: Space between you & the dog. Distraction: Anything your dog can see, hear, or small that can draw their attention away from you. Duration: Time your dog is performing the behavior or cue. Diversity: new environments, spaces, places, or surfaces (concrete, grass, bench, car, etc). Dog can follow cue regardless of what your are doing.

Resource Guarding

Common signs: - stiffening. - Freezing. - Staring. - trying to hide what they have. - Eating faster than normal. - Baring Teeth - Growling - lunging. - snapping. - Biting.

Trigger stacking

Considering all stressors a dog has been exposed to recently to determine what could put the dog over the threshold, both in a single moment and over a period of a few days.

Accepting a friendly stranger

Interact with other people without your dog interrupting.

Heel

Is about closeness and consistency of behavior while building an intense partnership between you and your dog.

Socialization

Is about introducing your puppy to the world so that they are comfortable in their environment. It includes having your puppy have positive experiences in different places, and with different people.

Value of reward

Is always determined by the dog

Camera

Take Photos where the dog looks at the camera, create picture perfect moments.

All Done

Teaches the Dog to disengage when given a cue.

Bucket Game

Teaches the dog to focus attention on the bucket. - Allows dog to exercise choice. - focuses the dog, even when excited. - provides opportunity to observe pets body language. - Increases confidence. - Reduces Fear.

Crate Training

Teaching a puppy to love their crate is one of the best things you can do for your pup. Crates can provide a safe space when you can't supervise your puppy.

Diversifying down

Teaching down from any position: sitting or standing

Jumping Up

Teaching sit is a great tool to prevent jumping on people

Drop It

Tells your puppy to release whatever is in their mouth. This can prevent your puppy from ingesting anything harmful.

Take It

Tells your puppy to take an item using their mouth with your permission.

Show Me a Cue (environmental cueing)

The dog performs behaviors in response to environmental cues.

Tap it (Paw Targeting)

The dog reaches out and touches a novel object with their paw.

Back up to Target

The dog will Back Up on cue until the rear paws touch the Target.

Environmental cue (Sit)

The dog will Sit when someone approaches.

Reading Discernment

The dog will Sit, Down, or Spin when presented with the corresponding cue card for each behavior.

Reading (Spin)

The dog will Spin when the Pet Parent presents the spin cue card with no verbal cue or hand signal.

Environmental Cue (Place)

The dog will automatically offer Place and Quiet when someone knocks on the door.

Environmental Cue (Wait)

The dog will automatically offer Wait when the pet parent opens a door.

Environmental Cue (Settle)

The dog will automatically offer settle when the pet parent takes a seat.

Find it

The dog will find and eat the treat.

Shell Game

The dog will find the treat with their nose and indicate which cup it is under by calmly sniffing, staring at, or touching it gently with their paw.

Object Discrimination (Two items)

The dog will indicate the cued item when presented with 2 items.

Object Naming Challenge

The dog will indicate the cued object despite the distraction of a new item

Color Recognition (blue)

The dog will make physical contact with a blue frisbee

Color Recognition (yellow)

The dog will make physical contact with a yellow frisbee

Color differentiation (yellow vs. Blue)

The dog will make physical contact with the color item cued.

Back Up

The dog will offer Back up on cue.

Tell Me a Story (Reading Showcase)

The dog will perform the behaviors with the cue cards only. There will not be a demonstration for this activity.

Excited to Settle

The dog will transition from an excited state to a calm, relaxed state.

Spin and Fading the Lure

The dog will turn in a circle when cued.

Chewing

The key to dealing with chewing is not to stop the chewing, but to channel the need to appropriate objects. You want your puppy chewing on items you approve... like a KONG or an appropriate chew toy.

Down

The position where your puppy will lay on the floor.

Cue

Visual or Verbal signal used to trigger a desired behavior. Cues are taught to give you a good working vocabulary with which to communicate with your puppy.

Wait with Distance

Waiting while you move a distance away from your dog.

Basic Shaping

having a specific goal in mind, and then reinforcing accordingly.

Free Shaping

reinforcing for any random behavior, like moving a paw or looking at an object.

Loose Leash walking

teaching your puppy to be your shadow. Teaching them to move with you. This focuses on keeping slack in the leash.

Focus

when your puppy checks in by looking at or near your face.

Lure/Prompt shaping

you would use the Lure to move the dog into position, but reward in incremental steps.