160: How to Work Through Mistakes in Your Agility Training

In this episode (39:11)

In this episode, Sarah and Esteban share some thoughts on the exact steps they take when the dog makes a mistake in agility training.

You Will Learn

• Exactly how Esteban and Sarah react to mistakes when training.
• How to keep your dog’s drive and enthusiasm up in the face of repeated mistakes.
• Why Sarah uses “microbreaks” with her border collie.
• Esteban’s thoughts on No Reward Marks (NRMs) in agility training.

Mentioned

• Analyzing Your Mistakes in Dog Agility
• Episode 30: Analyzing Mistakes and a Look at Systems
• On the Job Training using Placement of Reward
• Episode 131: Free Your Agility Dog
• Episode 49: Using Differential Rewards
• Episode 57: Interview with Denise Fenzi – Part 2
• Psychology Today: Should Trainers Tell Dogs When Their Behavior Is Wrong?