I've been working on backing with Anja for a few months. That makes it sound like a long time but it's probably been three or four total training sessions over that time period.
We use stop to flush to get the dog to back. Whether you taught bird in the air as a "cue" to stop, or are using the bird in the air as -P (negative punishment, bird goes away to punish the failure to "whoa"), the point is that you can teach the dog to back by showing them that a stationary dog predicts a bird in the air through classical conditioning.
After one stop to flush rep, Anja hit a beautiful back in her first session. Then she started blinking the backing dog, meaning she tried to avoid that dog by acting like she didn't see the dog.
This is not an uncommon issue and there are a lot of ways you can work on it. I tried at first to do the most straightforward thing, which was to correct her for not stopping. This wasn't working well and in our training system, if you have all the tools and communication in place properly, and you are chunking your training appropriately, then you rarely need a lot of reps to get something headed in the right direction.
So what ended up working was to use "indirect pressure". This means you put force on one behavior to improve the performance of another behavior. It is a way to use compulsion to influence a behavior desirably, but without creating some of the issues that pressure can cause in the emotional state of the dog. We have to remember that operant and classical conditioning are always happening at the same time. And using indirect pressure is often a way to maintain momentum or good attitude in a behavior while still benefiting from the reliability that pressure offers.
So I would use my whistle to make Anja turn, and use e-collar force each time I did so. This way I was steering her into the backing situation in a way she couldn't avoid. But I was not actually applying pressure to the back itself.
This has worked wonderfully with the remote backing dog silhouette so now it's time to bring another live dog back into the picture and see if it holds up.
Here's the unedited videos of a number of reps from this weekend. Pen raised birds add another layer of issues and sometimes we try to set things up that just go to hell or we flub in some way. This is all part of the "shit happens" rule of dog training.
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