I gotta say I don't see any fear nor aggression from this dog towards the vacuum. I see herding/hunting behaviours and then frustration because the vacuum does not respond to her herding/hunting "moves", as would an animal or even a toy. The training gets the dog to learn a different behaviour, sure, although I see quite a bit of confusion in the dog what the intention of the human is. I strongly believe that this is a happy, confident dog that could have been very easily taught with a calm and confident approach that "hey, we do not attack vacuums in our household, just go lay on the bed or wherever while I finish". Black and white - much easier to understand for the dog. That's my take.
I am not seeing it. I see exactly as she does a dog that is definitely not happy about this and is showing stress and indeed fear signs. My dog just jumps round a vacum and avoids however it does this with the lawn mower. Your idea would definitely not help. This is a really good read of bidy language of a dog that most owners miss
This programme helped my dog turn into a confused messed up dog. In the real world where footpaths + threshold space is limited and unexpected dogs and multiple triggers appeared it did not help my dog gain real world confidence and skills to cope in the real world for on leash walking ability and manners. The worst programme ever for canines IMO. My dog had no clear idea what they were being praised for. There is NO information given to the dog about behaviours you do not want so it is unbalanced.
I will definitely be trying this! thank you!
I use this with horses, and did not know it has a name :) Interesting !! Thank you :)
I like your approach!
Thank you for sharing the progress !
I gotta say I don't see any fear nor aggression from this dog towards the vacuum. I see herding/hunting behaviours and then frustration because the vacuum does not respond to her herding/hunting "moves", as would an animal or even a toy.
The training gets the dog to learn a different behaviour, sure, although I see quite a bit of confusion in the dog what the intention of the human is.
I strongly believe that this is a happy, confident dog that could have been very easily taught with a calm and confident approach that "hey, we do not attack vacuums in our household, just go lay on the bed or wherever while I finish". Black and white - much easier to understand for the dog. That's my take.
I am not seeing it. I see exactly as she does a dog that is definitely not happy about this and is showing stress and indeed fear signs. My dog just jumps round a vacum and avoids however it does this with the lawn mower. Your idea would definitely not help. This is a really good read of bidy language of a dog that most owners miss
Very helpful...Thank you.
This is going to make me sound crazy but for my dog me patting the vacum cleaner and talkeing to it in a babyvoice helped.
which quadrant would you put this method in?
Can this style of training be used to suppress barking at people?
The idea isn’t to suppress the behavior, but to get to the underlying emotion and work to change their feelings around it.
This programme helped my dog turn into a confused messed up dog. In the real world where footpaths + threshold space is limited and unexpected dogs and multiple triggers appeared it did not help my dog gain real world confidence and skills to cope in the real world for on leash walking ability and manners. The worst programme ever for canines IMO. My dog had no clear idea what they were being praised for. There is NO information given to the dog about behaviours you do not want so it is unbalanced.