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Originally Posted by ArwenLune
Did you see this video? [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0XuafyPwkg]............Edit to add: an extremely educational thing to do (which I keep intending to do but can't find someone nuts enough to do it with) is to play a shaping game with another person - take a goal behaviour in mind and without any verbal or gesture communication, only the click, let them figure out by trail-and-error what you want. Then reverse the game so you're the one being trained. I saw a video on this a while ago and can't find it now, sadly.
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OMG We do this all the time in our house, other half and I decide a task and we click our daughter, shaping what we want, then she decides with one of us something else and we 'shape' that = its a very enlightening experience with a five year old and teaches you an awful lot about timing!!!
Does this mean we are nuts??
Years ago I used to do a similar exercise in my puppy classes with two people going out the room. The class would choose something i.e. stand on a particular chair. One person comes in and all we can say is 'good boy/girl' etc., but only positives. Doesn't take them long to work it out.
Then the other person then comes in, but this time we can only use negatives ie. 'NO' 'Wrong!' etc., within a few minutes the person is unable to move, terrified they are going to get shouted at...
Try it!
Kate