Take Treats NICELY and GENTLY - Puppy Dog Training
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- Опубликовано: 17 янв 2019
- Teach your dog or puppy to take treats nicely and gently.
Set yourself up for success by teaching a calm settle first before playing the games if your dog takes treats extremely hard
Here is a video link to the tutorial on the settle: • Capturing Calmness- ho...
This is the first step that I would do with dogs who get extremely excited about food.
What you will do is have food on you all day, and when you see your dog relaxed and not thinking about food, you can present food between your dog’s paws. Then ignore your dog until he once again is not thinking about the food and looks very calm. He most likely will eat the treat with less gusto than if he had waited for you to take the treats from the fridge to the training area and then feed him in a state of anticipation.
Game 1
Choose a time to train when your dog is relaxed. Slowly move to put a treat down on the ground under his chin. If your dog touches or paws at your hand, slowly withdraw your hand and begin again. The behavior you are looking for is the dog patiently waiting for you to release the treat before going to eat it.
Game 2
First begin with a low value treat while your dog is calm. Slowly move to give your dog a treat. Bring your hand in close enough that your dog doesn’t have to stretch out his neck to get the treat. When you feel only your dogs lips and tongue and not his teeth let go of the treat. If you feel hard teeth, hold on to the treat, or slowly remove your hand and represent it slowly.
Practice with the dog in different positions in relation to you, to help the dog generalize the behavior.
Game 3
This exercise is for people who struggle to get their dog to take treats softly. So if you have success with Game 1 and 2 this game is not necessary.
Hold a treat between your fingers, that you can easily hold onto if the dog tries to take it with his teeth. Wait and see if the dog licks the treat. If he licks the treat let it go. If he doesn’t keep waiting or try to hold the treat in a different way that might give him the idea to lick it. You can first have your dog lick a thin layer peanut butter off a spoon to give him the idea of licking instead of biting.
Once your dog is reliably licking the treat out of your fingers, you can say your cue “Lick” or whatever cue you wish, like “Gentle”, before your dog licks it out of your hand.
It’s important to add the cue after your dog is calm and has started to take treats softly. Most dog owners say “gentle” every time they think their dog might take the treat hard, which is when the dog is excited. It is a much better idea to associate the cue when the dog is calm and the dog is already offering the behavior.
First play these games with low value treats and then higher value treats. Practice these games with the dog in different positions in relation to you as well as in different training locations, to help the dog generalize the behavior. When you first begin you can play the games after your dog has had a meal and is less interested in food.
Adding the clicker and marker words
When the dog is successfully taking treats softly you can start to click or say your verbal marker before giving the treat. First test to see if your dog is taking treats softly. Then practice the same games, but this time click or use a marker before moving to present the treat. Most dogs will get excited by hearing the marker and so most likely will want to take the treat hard at first.
What to do in training sessions to prevent the dog taking the treat hard as you train your dog to take treats softly:
Feed your dog with the treat in the center of a flat palm like you would feed a horse
Put the treat down on the ground
Toss a treat to your dog or on the ground (This might excite the dog, so only use this for behaviors you want your dog to be excited during)
Brush up sessions
If you notice your dog regresses to taking treats hard in training, either stop the training session or feed your dog in a way he cannot take treats hard. Then plan to do brush up lessons on taking treats calmly later when your dog is more relaxed. Suddenly beginning a “take the treats nicely” lesson when the dog takes a treat hard in a training session could possibly train your dog that he can make the training game easier if he simply bites your fingers.
Suddenly taking treats hard is a sign that the dog is excited or stressed. So it is actually a good way to know how your dog is feeling and that you might need to change your training plan. 
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Thanks I appreciate it. I am frequently told my videos are boring and not entertaining, but I made them for people searching to sit down and get information not be entertained. But obviously I learn as I go and over the years I learn more and more how to present material so it can be useful and understandable but I am still learning as I go.
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Awe thanks!
Whenever I get frustrated and down with training I always come back to your videos and you always have the answer, thankyou for existing and having all these amazing videos , I wouldn't have a clue otherwise 🙏🙏🙏
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Made me laugh too 😂
I've been watching your videos for a few years and I just want to say that I really love the videos youve made.
Thanks! It means a lot!
Wish is a perfect name for that lovely pup.
Thanks, this tutorial is very complete. Good description too. We have a high drive cairn terrier. Thanks to you she has learned to take treats nicely. Sometimes we have to remind her but not often. She is wonderful and plays frisbee.
Hehe I have to remind my terrier too!
Really , i would like to thank you , you are so percise , you really want us to understand and to succeed.
Thank you very much.
I think by these training sessions you will help dogs not to be abandoned by their owners.
I wish you happiness
Thank you Katy, I try my best. I realize I do need to focus not just on the information but also improve the quality of my videos so people are more likely to watch them and follow the information.
I saw this video on your channel a few times but never clicked on it as I taught my puppy how to take treats nicely at 8 weeks. But now I temporarily have my friend’s dog who will definitely leave me without my hand one day. Before that I never thought how important it is to teach them this. But now I am so happy my pup knows it well. With your help I will start teaching my guest dog
for my dog everything is high value treat :C
some trainers dream of that
Same. I could have lint in my hand and she'd do anything for it. She's also a high drive cattle dog 🐶
Ooh, thank you for this, Emily! Gonna do this with my 13 week-old shepherd mix pup who loves to chomp on my hand during training 😅
Same boat but mine isn’t a puppy, technically! 😂🤦🏽♀️
This is wonderful!!! I’ll be sharing this with my staff! It will really help them with our rowdy adolescents!!
You are welcome! I do have it on my website if you follow this link- It has the material written out- dogmantics.com/what-to-do-if-your-dog-takes-treats-hard/
Dog Training by Kikopup Great!! Thank you so much!!!
You are very welcome!
Thanks so so much for this!! 5 months and just realized how he has started lunging at the treat when he’s excited maybe because he has his new big teeth and doesn’t know how they work yet? Lol we will practice this later today after he’s calmer as he just saw rain for the first time and thinks he has to bark at it:)
Puppy Karma... ❤
My dog only gets excited with the high value treats so this was super helpful
glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for these videos and giving me the tools and confidence to teach my new puppy 💕 I like to share these videos with people
This helped my dog immensely! Thank you!
This is very helpful! My dog takes treats very nicely when we're not in a training session, but she gets very excited and "sharky" during a training session. I like the idea of capturing that gentleness when it's natural to her instead of trying to tell her to be gentle when she's already excited.
Follow up: Do you find that the gentleness generalizes and you don't have to cue the gentleness? I don't like the idea of having to cue her to take a treat gently after she's successfully done whatever I asked her to do in the training session.
Some dogs will be gentle always, but others, for example, the hard mouth can come back when they are over excited or fearful.
This is great, thanks!!!
I didn’t even know this could be taught, so thank you so much for such thorough information! I tried this with my dog and she keeps sniffing and licking my hand when I try to put the treat down. Do I have to take it away slowly and keep trying until she doesn’t sniff and lick my hand?
Wish is such a pretty name for a very pretty puppy ☺️
I have been watching ur video in youtube and I am very impress. I saw many dog training video but u r so good ever I seen
My dogs are very good with taking treats, but my Jack Russell, even though she's gentle, she likes to take my whole hand instead of just the treat, lol.
I don't really mind it since she doesn't bite hard, it's just a little silly of her.
My dog was a rescue i got when she was 6-7 months old. She used to grab for the 1treats like a maniac. All I had to do was simply refuse to give them and retry until she politely and slowly opened her mouth to take them. She learned that's the proper way to do it in no time. I can even feed her food on a fork now, she grabs it ever so softly and pulls it off of the fork without even touching it.
I have always had problems with teaching my dog to take treats gently. I have tried often to teach her, but still have no success. My problem is as follows:
1. As she knows the command Leave it, she will think the game is to "leave it" when I try to only give it to her if she shows self-restraint. So she doesn't take it until I allow her, but then still takes it hard. She does not understand that this is not "Leave it", if I try to make her understand it that she can have it, but slow, she will either refuse to take it or take it hard.
2. If I try to make her lick it out of my hand, and don't release it until she only licks, she will at first amp up her biting and then again, stop and give up trying to take the treat, thinking this is "leave it". If I encourage her to try to get it, she will sometimes do a bite-bite-lick-bite-bite-lick. And if I try to reward the few in-between licks, it is really hard to time it right.
I hope that was understandable, English is not my native language.
Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated. At this point I am basically regularly getting my hands mauled by my dog whi is else a really nice dog, just clearly doesn't understand that she should take treats gentle. It's not even that she bites in a "now-come-on, give!"-way, she is not rude or disrespectful, just clearly excited and does not know at all that this hurts me.
Another awesome video. Thank you!
This is helpful! My 9 year old Black Labrador bites my hand during training, and if doing a trick on the floor he hits it with his nails.
Lol most Labradors, if not all do this
@@kikopup I still need to teach him how to walk on a leash nicely, I need to see if it is my dad who makes him pull.
cute💖
@Dog Training by Kikopup Love your video's, they are so great, and come very highly recommended by the K9ti. It would be so awesome however, if occasionally you could show how these training sessions look with puppies who DO bite and lunge and jump. If my pup goes for my hand and grabs onto it without letting go, how do I successfully remove my hand slowly and calmly? Lately it feels as though my pup is never calm enough to do this without jumping and biting. He's either hungry and just wants to lunge to get the food, or not hungry and totally not interested in the treats at all.
I only at minute 2 and already have three major issues to solve before even starting training:
- my dog get very excited by any plastic-ky sound, he is so aroused he doesn’t calm down
- there is no such food my dog doesn’t like/doesn’t get excited to eat (he also likes LEMONS)
- even when my dog is gentle in taking the treat, he does not chew it: he swallows it super fast. He does the same with any food, except dinner cause we provided a labyrinth bowl.
I’m lost!
hehe, except the lemons this applies for my dog too. Also he is so excited about any food, that he won't even stay calm laying or sitting on the floor and constantly swaps between the two positions
Kikopup also has a video called "capturing calmness", if your dog will not calm down around any treat, that might be a better way for him to start these exercises.
For clicker training you want your dog to swallow the treat quickly so that you can keep the rate of reinforcement at about once every five seconds. Just make the treats small and soft to reduce choking.
thanks!
PatruzZRocK - Here you go :) ruclips.net/video/DR831Q2fv-U/видео.html I just made a video on that exact topic :) :) :)
ruclips.net/video/DR831Q2fv-U/видео.html Todays video is on that topic! :)
My dad taught this to our american pitbull without realizing. He would literally try to eat your hand as well with the treat. So my dad would just tell to not do that again. And he actually listened to him.
Some dogs are so amazingly intelligent!
I have a German Shepherd/Bernese Mountain dog that is never calm. She's so rough with treats.
When I calmly mark my pup for being settled he excitedly gets up and doesn’t stay in his lying down position. Should I still give him the treat? A very food motivated 10wk old Aussie (we’re just working with kibble). I feel like he’s ALWAYS thinking about the treats. Or sleeping.
You can try doing this out and about where there are more distractions, it can help with the hyper fixation afterward. You could also mark and go and put the treat where he "was" so like if the puppy was on a dog bed, he gets up and runs to you, you walk back to the bed, and hold the treat on the bed until he lays and then give it to him, and then next time you could try walking past and just placing a treat between his paws instaed of using a verbal marker. Then pretend to busy yourself with something else to show him it was just a 1 treat deal.
Hey, thanks for the great video and all other of your great videos. I have a question though. Another popular RUclips trainer that I appreciate a lot and who is really good in my opinion, says that shuffling their paws is a sign that your marker is conditioned correctly. You say you don't like it. Why? Do you think it means the dog is over-aroused?
I think it really depends on the dog and their personality. As sometimes shuffling might be due to the dog being impatient between the marker and the reinforcement. I like to teach the dog the marker means also to wait patiently, so if they get reinforced for shuffling sometimes they will shuffle during training, like in anticipation of reinforcement. Especially some dogs like say a min pin, I would immediately start working on standing calmly for a treat. Or you might get dancing incorporated in some of the behaviors you are training. Some dogs will spin, some will whine, some will poke your hand, some might shiver, some might bark, some even air snap if you take tooo long to get the treat out without training. So teaching a calm wait between the marker and reinforcement can reduce a lot of frustration in training, depending on the dogs personality. It really wouldnt be an issue unless you had a dog with issues with frustration and impulse control or you are trying to get a very specific precise behavior
@@kikopup Wow, thank you very much for the detailed answer! My puppy really has huge issues with frustration, though by now (I have her almost 3 months now, she soon will be 5 months) I have learnt to avoid frustration by management and teach her impulse control. I tried and failed at teaching her frustration tolerance though. But sometimes I just think, there's so much to teach to a puppy that 24hours in a day and 7 days in a week just aren't enough, and then the puppy also needs sleep and play time etc outside of teaching, and before I even blink, another week has gone by without any progress.
On the other hand though... We did make one huge progress today. By counter conditioning I have reduced my pups resource guarding to being basically nonexistent - from her growling and snapping at my hand to me being able to literally touch a bully stick she was chewing on today.
(I know this has nothing to do with the original comment, but sometimes it's just good to share successes!)
Thank you for making great training videos for us - especially for us First-Time dog owners!
My pups like their kibble a lot, i dont have any other high value treat. What should i do?
Superb video, thank you as always! Question: Our 10-week-old lab is doing quite good considering how much he loves food. We use most of his daily kibble for hand-feeding, either during training (capturing calmness) or just for bonding.
However, whenever I give him more than 1 piece at a time, he inhales it all with hardly any chewing. Should I avoid handfeeding larger portions?
It shouldnt cause a problem if small kibble is swallowed whole. It would if it was a small dog. One thing you can do if you were worried would be to soak the kibble in water so it expands and is soft?
My friend's dog which I usually train with takes treat very hard: he's just swallow all my hand in his mouth. What can I do to teach him take treats calm? (bullterrier)
Did you even watch the video?
I suggest doing the first step that I talk about in the video- when you do it enough, it will change the dogs behavior around food. Have a bait bag on 100 % of the time, and any time you see your dog calm relaxed and not thinking about the food, you go and drop a treat between your dogs paws. You will see that your dog is not "anticipating" the food, and so will take the food with a soft mouth when he is calm. Then you wait again, you might have to wait hours. What usually happens is the owner gets the treats and the dog is already "too excited" to have a soft mouth.
A lot of standard poodles and large breed dogs, will open their mouth like an alligator over your hand. I suggest, first starting with putting the treat down on the ground game first. IF the dogs mouth begins to open on your hand, move your hand back. Some dogs its just their personality, but if a treat has been given when they open their mouth like this, it has been reinforced, so it will take some time to teach the dog a new way of taking treats.
Well I am trying to get more views on my video, so any comments help :) So its a good thing when people ask questions :) Thanks for the second question :)
@@kikopup thank you for your answer) i watched video before asking, you're really great!)
all right, all right! But when you have a puppy with a lot of appetite how do you do it? thanks
When you're using the clicker, why are you not using it to mark her taking the treat gently?
Hello Sharon 👋….How are you doing?
When you are using the clicker, why are you not using the clicker to mark her when she takes the treat gently?
What a great idea to give treats when they are tired and resting...he licked the treat instead of using his teeth!
Yay!
I love her name :D
Awe thanks :) I do too. However, I usually call her Wishy and when I say that in public I get a little embarrassed at how childish it sounds.
wish is so interesting and sweet looking! i love her.
I love her too :) She has had a lot of fears and anxieties but now at 4 is just a lovely dog :)
My smol dog (spitz) drew blood taking a treat out of my hand, Big dogs are more gentle with their mouth
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@@kikopup i watch each and evry video that u upload..ur the best dog trainer on youtube....thank you soo mch..
Awe thanks! Ill keep on putting out more material :)
You know she’s got well trained dogs because the other dog is just watching the pup get all these treats and doesn’t do anything