Saturday, November 24, 2012

December's Challenge - Remove a Sock


The challenge for December, 2012 is here!

You will teach your dog to. . . remove a sock from your foot (well, anybody's foot. . . it doesn't have to be yours.)

The rules for the challenge:
  1.  The final behavior is the dog removing a sock from a foot. You are allowed to have about an inch of sock hanging loose off your toes if you wish. Otherwise, the sock must be in the normal position on the foot. 
  2. Your video should include some of your training sessions and the final product. Your video should be posted to youtube, photobucket, or any other video sharing website, with the link put in the comments for this challenge. 
  3. Your video will be graded on: 
    1. Timing of your mark/clicker. 
    2. Placement and use of rewards to facilitate behavior. 
    3. Your training journey (how you got from Point A to Point B). 
    4. Creativity shown by your dog. 
    5. Putting a link for the video in the comments of this post by the due date. 
  4. Bonus points will be given for: 
    1.  Showing sock removal from different feet. 
    2. Letting us hear a squeal or groan of pain when your dog gets the foot rather than the sock. (Yes, I'm evil.) 
    3. Training bloopers! 
  5. Videos are due by December 20! Update:  Challenge extended to January 20!
Ready, set, go!

1 comment:

  1. Hi Nita,

    I see you have extended the challenge deadline to January 20th. Good! Hopefully you will get a lot of respondents.

    Here are my entries:

    The first is of the trick training in real time. I sent this to your email addy earlier-- did you receive it?

    http://youtu.be/fGN_Jzzk5rk

    The second is the final behavior- Holiday Edition.

    http://youtu.be/xjOBGXFfphQ

    Have a wonderful Holiday Season. Hope we have the chance to meet again in 2013!

    Laurie, Snip and Sassy

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