Focus is super important during your training sessions and when shaping new behaviors. This is because you want to ensure that you are responding to your animal’s behavior with precision timing. Delivering reinforcement the split second your animal does something desirable is one of the key ingredients of being successful. You want to be prepared to reinforce any slight movement towards the final behavior you are trying to train. LASER focus therefore, can be a highly desirable skill to practice …. Watch the trainer in the next video who’s demonstrating this … even when what some might consider a significant distraction occurs in her training session.
NOTE: This is a wonderful trainer from Scotland who has two rescue male Eclectus parrots. Little is known about the past of these animals although when arriving in their new home their feather condition was less than desirable. They now lead a life full of positive reinforcement training and high levels of enrichment and feather damage has/is decreasing significantly
EXAMPLE
- The ULTIMATE guide for shaping new behaviors (Mini-course) Module
- STEP 1. Stay super focused on your animal no matter what the distractions. Lesson
- STEP 2. Deliver your reinforcement with precision timing. Lesson
- STEP 3. Develop hypersensitivity to your animal’s body language. Lesson
- STEP 4. Set the environment up for success. Lesson
- STEP 5. Understand your animal’s reinforcers … Lesson
- STEP 6. Know what the consequence is for “in-action” … Lesson
- STEP 7. Ensure you provide good clear communication … Lesson
- STEP 8. Empower your animals … Lesson
- STEP 9. Review your training and shaping plans frequently … Lesson
- STEP 10. Make sure you are in the right frame of mind … Lesson
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