Figure U- Placing food in dog's mouth. 



that each dog progresses at its own pace and 

 encourage them to be patient. If a handler be- 

 comes disgusted or loses his temper, any benefit 

 from that day's training may be lost. 



e. Steps 5 and 6. One good technique for get- 

 ting the dog to move to a certain spot in the pen 

 is to "divide" the pen into progressively smaller 

 sections. The handler should stand in the center 

 of the pen. He may then reinforce his dog only 

 when it is in that half of the pen to his front 



(fig 5). Next, he may reinforce his dog only 

 when it is in one quadrant (fig 6), and so forth 

 until the dog continuously moves in only one di- 

 rection. The handler constantly withholds rein- 

 forcement until his dog gets a little closer to the 

 desired spot, and expects a little more each time. 

 Once the handler has his dog going to a partic- 

 ular spot, he must never reinforce his dog for 

 doing less, such as going only halfway to the 

 spot. Training time for the average dog is two or 

 three 10 to 15 minute sessions. 



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