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Training Maybe.
Jul. 24th, 2010 08:01 amI can now add 'sit' to the list of things that Maybe knows from a verbal cue.
She doesn't like to sit (although, you know, today I think she didn't mind. She offered them pretty quickly), and she'll still sometimes claw from a sitting position, but I'll take what I can get. But it's pretty much solved the problem of 'Maybe trying to steal Moet's treats when he gets them.' He does a trick, gets a treat, I ask her to sit, she sits and gets a treat, and now she's realised that that's a much more successful way of getting treats. Especially as she tends to get more treats for a sit, than what she can steal from Moet.
She no longer gets regular food rewards for going to the top of the tower, since she loves it so much and it's pretty ingrained. So she gets rewards for getting *off* the tower. Lol. She's gotten better at getting 'off' things. That is slowly reflecting in the every day, when I don't always have a clicker or treat with me, and have to ask her to get off something (i.e. ALL THE TIME).
But I'm so glad she's offering really nice sits now.
I can also chain things together with her really really easily. Today, for example, we did this:
Maybe -> Follow Me (into another room) -> Up (on the table) -> Run (along the edge of the table) -> Off -> Tower (to the top) -> Off -> Sit! -> Click/Treat. She did everything awesomely. And everything fast, including the sit.
In fact, aside from sitting, it's not often I get her to do solo cues anymore. It's more challenging to her (and therefore exhausting, huzzah!) to do a whole bunch of things in a row and stay with me and pay attention, than to ask her to do one thing.
Incidentally, I did this training session immediately after breakfast, but they were still really responsive. Awesome. (They are always hungry). I think I could offer them like 15 training sessions a day and...well at least Maybe would be into it. While Moet doesn't run up to me, he still magically shows up for every training session. Heh.
Now - while I've been writing this entry - Maybe is sitting lovingly by my feet and looking up at mecreepily. Patiently. Like a freaking dog, yall.
Also, Moet is still going to the toilet in the litter tray with little complaint (there was some last night, like five meows? That's NOTHING compared to the four hours it used to be) and it's amaaaaaazing. We love you, Moet!
She doesn't like to sit (although, you know, today I think she didn't mind. She offered them pretty quickly), and she'll still sometimes claw from a sitting position, but I'll take what I can get. But it's pretty much solved the problem of 'Maybe trying to steal Moet's treats when he gets them.' He does a trick, gets a treat, I ask her to sit, she sits and gets a treat, and now she's realised that that's a much more successful way of getting treats. Especially as she tends to get more treats for a sit, than what she can steal from Moet.
She no longer gets regular food rewards for going to the top of the tower, since she loves it so much and it's pretty ingrained. So she gets rewards for getting *off* the tower. Lol. She's gotten better at getting 'off' things. That is slowly reflecting in the every day, when I don't always have a clicker or treat with me, and have to ask her to get off something (i.e. ALL THE TIME).
But I'm so glad she's offering really nice sits now.
I can also chain things together with her really really easily. Today, for example, we did this:
Maybe -> Follow Me (into another room) -> Up (on the table) -> Run (along the edge of the table) -> Off -> Tower (to the top) -> Off -> Sit! -> Click/Treat. She did everything awesomely. And everything fast, including the sit.
In fact, aside from sitting, it's not often I get her to do solo cues anymore. It's more challenging to her (and therefore exhausting, huzzah!) to do a whole bunch of things in a row and stay with me and pay attention, than to ask her to do one thing.
Incidentally, I did this training session immediately after breakfast, but they were still really responsive. Awesome. (They are always hungry). I think I could offer them like 15 training sessions a day and...well at least Maybe would be into it. While Moet doesn't run up to me, he still magically shows up for every training session. Heh.
Now - while I've been writing this entry - Maybe is sitting lovingly by my feet and looking up at me
Also, Moet is still going to the toilet in the litter tray with little complaint (there was some last night, like five meows? That's NOTHING compared to the four hours it used to be) and it's amaaaaaazing. We love you, Moet!
