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I audited a Jane Killion seminar a couple of weeks ago at Love on a Leash in Harrisonburg VA. Just received the book yesterday from Amazon (should have read it before so I’d know what to ask, hate to ask questions that are covered in a book that I should have read).

Jane was wonderful. Maybe I’ll always be impressed by the experts. Maybe? Certainly. They are experts, of course. That’s why we pay them the big bucks for the privilege of learning from them.

In the Saturday morning session, she worked on free shaping. One important thing she did was different for me. In teaching a behavior that involved an obstacle, she used targeting, of course, and

delivered the reward by tossing it on the ground behind her, so the dog would have to pass behind her to retrieve the food reward and then turn back around toward her – and toward the target – after getting the reward. Click-treat again!

She also reinforced the going toward the target in very small increments.

The location of reward delivery was ground-breaking Read more…