Winston - Ways Toys can Help Build Behaviors/Skills. Loose Leash Walking Tips for Success

Are we depositing enough reinforcement into those behavior/skill accounts? Are the foods/toys or reinforcement actually reinforcing to them? Or could your dog be overwhelmed/over stimulated? Loose leash walking practice. Are we helping our pup practice prior to wanting the skill/behavior or in the real world situation. Find its to send them away then add in orientation to you with loose leash walking. Try to mark the behavior/skills with “yes!” Which means here comes your food reinforcer. Building skills with toys to help gain new skills or build in on previously learned skills. Ways play can build up skills for later and help create value in your relationship. What is your pup getting to practice? Are they mastering skills you’d like to have happen again in the future? On/Off switch through play for other situations. Toy rotation as well as food to practice take it & drop it/give/out. Try to meet your two dogs needs to help their relationship together. Try not to repeat your cues or almost wait for him to figure it out or help him learn the skill. Ways toys could build other skills like loose Leash walking. Toy reinforcer = “good!” And food reinforcer = “yes!” We do not our pups to go off the deep end of “over arousal”. Don’t practice/train if you’re not feeling up to it. Are we setting ourselves up for success? Are we making the work worth it to your dog? Are we also being consistent?