Trid li l-kelb tiegħek jitgħallem kif iżomm ir-ross skutella tiegħu stess? Dan fil-fatt mhux diffiċli, the key is to use the right method!
It’s important to prepare well and choose a good rice bowl: don’t just take a bowl and let the dog carry it. It is best to choose lightweight silicone or soft plastic bowls. It is best to have a raised or non slip design around the edge of the bowl, so that dogs can bite with their teeth. The size should also be appropriate. Choose the right training time: You learn the fastest when you’re hungry! Train about an hour before meals, and it will be more willing to cooperate with you in order to eat. Find a quiet place and practice for 5-10 minutes each time. Practice two or three times a day, with short-term high-frequency effects being the best.
Step 1: L-ewwel, make it like this bowl. Place the bowl in front of it and reward it with a small snack as soon as it touches or even just looks at it with its nose. After it understands that ‘touching the bowl equals doing something good’, it will raise its requirements a bit and need to lightly bite the edge of the bowl to receive the reward.
Step 2: Teach it to “bite and don’t loosen its mouth”. After biting the bowl, you can say the command “bite” while waiting for two or three seconds before giving the reward, and then slowly extend it to 5 seconds. If the bowl falls off, calmly say ‘No’ and start over. If it succeeds, loudly praise it as’ great! ‘.
Step 3: Let it hold the bowl and take two steps (about 1-2 weeks). Place the bowl one meter away and say “bring it over” to it. After it picked it up and walked back to you, give it a reward immediately! Then slowly increase the distance. If it doesn’t know where to go, you can gently guide it with a tow rope.
Step 4: Deliver the food to the designated location and teach it to let go of the bowl upon hearing the command “give it to me”. Then you point to its old place where it eats and say ‘put it here’. Once it does, immediately! right off! Pour dog food in! In this way, it will firmly remember: ‘Bring the bowl here=eat immediately!’.
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The reward should be clever: at the beginning, use super delicious snacks to lure it in, and when it gradually learns, it can be exchanged for a few dog food or just a pat on the head to praise. After it becomes proficient, it no longer needs to give snacks every time, but instead rewards them every few times, so that it won’t rely on snacks.
What to do if it’s wrong: If it refuses to do it, it means it’s taking a big step. Go back to the previous step and reinforce it. Don’t force it. If it runs away playing with a bowl as a toy, use the “spit” command to make it put it down, then end the game, take away the bowl, and let it understand that this bowl is not a toy.
The environment should be fixed: during training, put away all other toys to prevent them from being distracted. Try to train in the same place and with the same password every day, it can learn faster.
