Discovering what treats your dog truly loves is a fun experiment! It’s important to know our dog’s high value food reinforcers, and I’ve got tips to boost food drive and training success. If your dog has a low drive for food, identifying what they think is high value is really going to help you. You can check out the full video at • Structure Your Dog Tra...
You're going to know what is super high value food to your dog. Now, if you're listening to this, you're listening to this because you want to create drive for food. But you need to experiment something like, go to the grocery store and get liver pâté. Or if you can find some dog treats that have beef tripe.
My dogs go crazy for tripe treats. I'm warning you, they stink, they're horrid, but the dogs love them. Experiment 20 different things that your dog may love. What you don't want to do is give the dog the same thing all the time. Variety is key.
We're trying to create a value of reinforcement, an array of reinforcement. So, try all kinds of things. Ask your friends, post on social media, “My dog's a picky eater. Can you give me any suggestions of things that your dog absolutely loves?”
And when you find something, don't go crazy giving it to your dog, save it for special occasions. We want to use it, but we don't want to overuse it. So, experiment with dry food, semi-moist food, and some moist food. Things like raw dog food. And if that grosses you out, you can cook that raw dog food. Things like, I mentioned liver pâté. So, dry, semi-moist, and moist. Those are really good things.
But I would encourage you, please make sure they're still really nutritious for your dog, ideally. I am pretty fussy about my own dogs. So, there's some really great healthy treats that they will go gaga for. So, it’s exercise, it's relaxation, it's knowing what is the value of the food.
Next, while we are retraining your dog, please don't ask them to take something you aren't a hundred percent confident they will take. Now, I just told you to experiment. So, you might put like a different treat on a paper plate and let your dog sniff them all. You might just put two or three.
I got to tell you; you can increase the value of food right away by moving it. So, you might put one little treat on a paper plate and move it around, so your dog has to chase it in order to sniff it. See if that is a way to increase the value for the food. But what you want to make sure you don't do is don't ask your dog to take a lower value treat at a time when they're highly unlikely to take any treat.
Lower value treats happen in the comfort of your own home, when they're more relaxed and they're more likely to take it. But honestly, if you've got treats that your dog will sort of take occasionally, let's put those to the side for now. We're only going to work with medium and high value treats.
Eventually we're going to go back to those low value treats. I promise you; your dog will take those too and happily. Next, just know this is the long game. Your dog is highly unlikely to like magically develop food drive overnight. It could happen. It might start, especially when you add the games that I'm going to teach you, but it's highly unlikely it's going to happen overnight.
So no, it's a process. Be patient, take notes. This is where you are today. Take notes where you are tomorrow and next week. It will improve if you are patient. It's not that your dog is defective. It's just that your dog currently has a history that includes refusing food or saying, “I don't want that.” And we're just going to change that, but you need to be patient and play the long game.
Recognize that reinforcement isn't a moment in time, it's an activity. So, when we start playing these games, the reinforcement process starts the moment you say yippee or whatever you say to celebrate your dog doing something well, and it carries on to the delivery of the reinforcement for the dog, the placement of the reinforcement, how that dog receives the reinforcement.
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