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CU Ping Pong Game IRL (Patreon)

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2023-10-02 10:59:01
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Pattern Games aren't just for new dogs! They're for all dogs, all the time, forever LOL!

Using predictable patterns and games that your dog understands can be a helpful tool in building engagement around distractions, but also as an indicator to let you know if your dog is ready to work.

In this video I pull out a pattern game around a tough parking lot distraction, prior to a walk, after I've been away from my dog for more than a week. Notice that in under 90 seconds she is now paying attention and ready to go for her morning walk.

You can check out a helpful PDF of the game in the attachment.

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Patreon Ping Pong Game in Parking Lot with Whip

Comments

Earth2Wendy

I’m impressed by your amazing timing on the clicks. Somewhere in her videos Leslie McDevitt says to (roughly) “try to click the first neck muscle twitch” [as the dog is beginning the turn toward you]. Great reminder about pattern games, particularly when and why to use them. (I think you meant to write she is *now* ready for her walk. Darn spell-wrecker!) Thanks for this vid!

Sarah Stauffer

pattern games are life changing…. Thank you for this… as a handler with high anxiety sometimes I’m not sure if it’s more beneficial for my dog or for ME!

Sarah Stauffer

I actually have a question too: I’m in this awkward spot with my sdit leo where we are about to test for cgc so we’ve been working a lot without food as a reinforcer. I realized that as I’m working without food, I’m also not using pattern games since I’ve always done them with a clicker and food. Our transition/acclimation time, like exactly like this session with Whip, have gotten a lot slower without pattern games and food. I mean, my praise and pets are pretty darn good and I’m lucky that leo likes both of those things but he is an unaltered 18 month old male golden retriever and when I’m competing with things like the smell of girl dog pee, freeze dried chicken liver is just much more effective. My question is can you do pattern games effectively with other reinforcers? That seems like it would be harder given that patterns are uniform and keeping pets and praise uniform seems much harder than dropping or delivering food. And it’s a lot harder to assess loop cleanliness with praise and pets… Just an additional note that I’m owner training and aside from passing cgc, I don’t need Leo to work food free really ever or at least not until much later in his training. He is doing so, so well!

DOGGY•U
>>118868587

Thanks for the spell check! I really need someone whose full time job is to make my rambling make sense and also check my spelling and grammer lol!

DOGGY•U
>>118890883

Hey Sarah! This is a great question. I think, if I needed to do a pattern game without food, I would create a lot of value for hand touches, then (and I often will do this in short bursts) have them do a hand touch to either side for several reps. You'd need to maintain the value of hand touches over time, but that doesn't sound like it would be an issue. Also, regarding CGC. How are you going about working without food rewards? Because, just like you, I'll never have to be fully without any primary reinforcers in real life, when I train for the test I do a cookie cache somewhere .... now that I write this, I think I need to make a video of this to explain ... I'll put it on my list to do. But basically, I have a place where I put my "party" cookies, off my body, we do the required behaviors, and then I yell "party" and we run over to the party cache together. I then increase the amount of behaviors required before we have a party, building to being able to do an entire CGC (or whatever the required activity is). Let me know if that makes sense!

Kori Lynne Illustration

ahhhhh I love this, this is a great example and reminder of how to use the pattern games!! This might be a weird question, but do you have a recommendation for a clicker that's on the quieter side? Ours is LOUD which is great for all of the hectic, outdoor festival spaces we've been working in... but it feels like all of Fred Meyer can hear our clicking when we pop inside!

DOGGY•U
>>118922667

I totally get this! I sometimes don't use the clicker inside because I think it can be too loud for CoolWhip's delicate little ears lol! But, I have two clickers that tend to be less loud: Clicino which is sold by clean run I believe and is a weird little ring This one also seems much more quiet to me: https://amzn.to/48FyDTj Alternatively, I put the clicker up my sleeve. :)

K

I don't think my dog (6 month old Kelpie) would be able to play that game in that situation. He may not have a barking fit but he would want to scan around and he'd probably start pulling on leash as he often does when he is in a new environment. I have a tough time using pattern games when I want to use them, since I can't get his attention on me long enough to get him into a loop. If I practice them a lot at home and in other places famiiar to him, will it help him be able to do them in unfamiliar environments?

DOGGY•U
>>119027739

Yes! It is absolutely vital that you play these games in non-distracting environments (at home) and then in familiar locations, and that you maintain that practice throughout their life. They should be really solid in easy places before bringing it to more challenging locations. I play ping pong at home with Whip at least once or twice a week for one of her meals.

K

Is it important that the dog looks up at your face/eyes? Sometimes my dog looks back at my hand or the treat pouch, or just in my general direction, and I'm not sure if it counts as a check in or if I should wait for eye contact before clicking.

DOGGY•U
>>119194117

For me, eye contact is the behavior I'm marking. So if you're not easily getting eye-contact, I would consider working on that foundational behavior in a non-distracting environment and then working up to getting that same eye contact in distracting environments, and then go back to the ping pong game with eye contact at home, and then out to more challenging places.

Nikki Nyx (Kitty Kai)

Is it okay to do all of this with out a clicker. I’ve always struggled with a clicker

Flumazenil

How do you stop the game? What do you do when your dog looses focus? Mine isn’t crazily food motivated so he wanders off sometimes do do other stuff, even in the apartment