#task training

[siofae]

Gonna get a small med holder to put in here and train Ricky Lea to retrieve it for his medication retrieval task 😆 he already loves carrying it around

[fayeandknight]

Was doing fine the keys training with Forte today. I shut him in the break room with his beloved piggy and figured that would distract him from hearing what I was doing. But he must have heard me lift the bucket because he went right for it.

Not going to lie, I'm super impressed.

[mandana-the-service-pup]

You want to know a task I find surprisingly helpful. Being able to hand Mandana a packaged item and have her carefully open it for me. It’s not the same destruction you see when you give her cardboard for enrichment. She’s very meticulous and gentle. She doesn’t care about what’s inside the package (even if it’s food) and she takes directions very seriously. Like if I show her a pull tab she will carefully only grab that little part and pull it until it opens or until I ask her to stop.

It’s not something I planned but she really enjoys this very specific task and I find it super helpful on bad arthritic days when I can’t use my fingers without pain.

[hashtag-xolo]

I will take a better video of this cue one day but I wanted to get an example of it since description is a little hard. You can see it right near the very beginning of the video where Tzapo pulls my hand to his chest. This is one of Tzapo's interruption tasks, where he redirects me into petting him rather than self harming or just to ground myself through petting him.

[arwenthegreat]

We haven't done a lot of training outings lately, mostly just at home sessions, and they are paying off!!

Tonight my cousin and I were in the kitchen, and Moose (my dachshund that I task trained to help me before I got Arwen) alerted two separate times to my high heart rate. I hadn't asked him to be paying attention, and it was very distracting with both dogs and our cats running around. When I checked my fitbit both times, my heart rate was over 110 even though I had been doing nothing but stand and chat. And then when I sat down, Arwen immediately and without prompting came over to do dpt!! She's doing her tasks without me asking! I couldn't be prouder!!

[minnowsmuse]

Mini’s first true task that isn’t her basic obedience service dog training.. well guess her second but still! She knows “Hold it!”

[migrainepup]

We have a lot of empty 8 oz soda bottles which should be easy for the dog to pick up so we’ll start with that.

He was interested in playing when we started training, so fetch was my reward and it made him think about his mouth so that’s good too.

Touch the bottle, chase the toy, bring it back.

Grab the bottle from my hand or the ground, fetch the toy.

Grab the bottle and walk away?? Fetch the toy again.

I put it on the ground and then as soon as he picks it up, I grab it in his mouth and throw a toy and go nuts playing with him with tons of attention.

He doesn’t get that I want it in my hand, I probably startled him, but he still picks it up from the ground and my hand, just doesn’t hold it as long.

I try again downstairs but he’s tired. I’ll try again tomorrow.

[powerfulexistance]

Him do important alert!!! And then... him... watch 👀