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My dog Jasmine is 10 months old and occasionally gets frustrated when training, she manifests this by performing multiple commands when asked for one, pawing and barking while she does the command, at this point I usually switch the focus or pause the training session till she is calm. She has completed puppy training and 2 basic training courses, I have never had issues with her, we are postponing CGC till after the summer when everyone has more time.
Anyway today we were doing our usual PM training, I usually do one quick run through of each command she knows, just give each command, she does it, rewarding each 1 2 or 3 times (trying to reward more randomly) but she tends to get frustrated when she does 2-3 commands and doesn't get a reward, she still performs them though.
After that I wanted to work on sit-stay, her stay is really good when lying down, but she gets way more distracted when sitting, she was in a lay, so I told her to sit to get into a sit, she had real issues going from a lay to a sit. I usually release her from her stay with another command or just saying get up, but I never usually ask her to sit from laying down, so I asked her to get up then sit, which worked fine, I then had her lay down again but then when I asked her to sit from laying, she didn't seem to understand, so I lured her up, but she then lunged for the treat, and I thought we had eliminated lunging a long time ago! SO I rewound to some impulse control exercises for a few minutes, she stopped lunging and finally figured out that I wanted her to lay down then sit, I decided to repeat this a few times, sit, lay down, sit, lay down, rewarding every time, for some reason she found this really frustrating and barked aggressively enough to scare me and the kids. I kind of squealed like I used to when she nipped as a puppy and ignored her for a bit then when she finally calmed herself and lay down next to me looking happy, finished off with a bit of fetch. (which never frustrates her).
I am just wondering at what point I should have stopped the training session, if I stopped every training session when she got frustrated we would never train for more than a couple of minutes, and she often recovers after a bit of frustration to have a really good training session.
Today was a weird day she hasn't been outside much for the past 2-3 days because of the dangerously hot weather, but I have taken her to daycare, and tried to give her a lot of indoor exercise, there was a thunderstorm this afternoon, but they don't usually bother her. Her training sessions are usually 10 minutes twice a day, with spot training throughout the day, but if she hasn't been out much, I may go to 20 mins.
I really would like to teach her more, but I don't know if it will make training even more frustrating for her, like now when I ask her for a touch, she will touch, shake, wave, high five, like she is trying everything. She gives no stress signals, just high arousal signals
Anyway today we were doing our usual PM training, I usually do one quick run through of each command she knows, just give each command, she does it, rewarding each 1 2 or 3 times (trying to reward more randomly) but she tends to get frustrated when she does 2-3 commands and doesn't get a reward, she still performs them though.
After that I wanted to work on sit-stay, her stay is really good when lying down, but she gets way more distracted when sitting, she was in a lay, so I told her to sit to get into a sit, she had real issues going from a lay to a sit. I usually release her from her stay with another command or just saying get up, but I never usually ask her to sit from laying down, so I asked her to get up then sit, which worked fine, I then had her lay down again but then when I asked her to sit from laying, she didn't seem to understand, so I lured her up, but she then lunged for the treat, and I thought we had eliminated lunging a long time ago! SO I rewound to some impulse control exercises for a few minutes, she stopped lunging and finally figured out that I wanted her to lay down then sit, I decided to repeat this a few times, sit, lay down, sit, lay down, rewarding every time, for some reason she found this really frustrating and barked aggressively enough to scare me and the kids. I kind of squealed like I used to when she nipped as a puppy and ignored her for a bit then when she finally calmed herself and lay down next to me looking happy, finished off with a bit of fetch. (which never frustrates her).
I am just wondering at what point I should have stopped the training session, if I stopped every training session when she got frustrated we would never train for more than a couple of minutes, and she often recovers after a bit of frustration to have a really good training session.
Today was a weird day she hasn't been outside much for the past 2-3 days because of the dangerously hot weather, but I have taken her to daycare, and tried to give her a lot of indoor exercise, there was a thunderstorm this afternoon, but they don't usually bother her. Her training sessions are usually 10 minutes twice a day, with spot training throughout the day, but if she hasn't been out much, I may go to 20 mins.
I really would like to teach her more, but I don't know if it will make training even more frustrating for her, like now when I ask her for a touch, she will touch, shake, wave, high five, like she is trying everything. She gives no stress signals, just high arousal signals