How much off leash (in a safe, fenced place) hard, hard running does she get a day?
What kinds of places are you asking her to sit? What is the environment like?
How long, how many weeks or months has she been reinforced for a nice sit, built duration in a non-distracting environment?
How long has she been reinforced for a nice sit of some duration, starting out with seconds, going to a minute, to 3 minutes with no distractions and then with milder distractions, a person walking by, you dropping a toy, you moving your body?
How long, how many weeks or months has she been reinforced for a nice sit with eye contact of some duration with you... with dogs which are 300 ft. away or more? (just a guess at a lower threshold distance)
It just seems to me that you aren't building behavior. You're throwing her into situations and enviroments where she is guaranteed to fail, thereby not getting an ample amount of opportunity to succeed and build ample reinforcement for single behaviors....then putting them together. You're asking too much too soon. Break things down into smaller parts, reinforce for baby steps. She MUST get reinforced for even approximations to the behavoirs you're looking for in order to build up to the end behavior.
"The type of reward, which can vary, how the dog views it, how often it is delivered, and the timing of the delivery, all have an effect on training. The delivery of a reward must happen within 3 seconds or the dog is onto something else and that behavior will be what you're reinforcing. A somewhat hungry dog will work better for food. He will comply and perform better for tastier rewards. If you start out with less tasty rewards then give a better treat, that treat will have more value.
Most all professional dog trainers use some type of schedule of reinforcement for rewards. Rewards are delivered on a continuous, variable, or fixed ratio of reward to behavior. A continuous schedule means that each time the dog is cued to sit and sits, he is rewarded. A variable schedule means that the dog’s reward for sitting varies from one instance to the next (this is not a totally random delivery of reinforcement because there will be a certain average number of sits required, much like a slot machine works on an average number of pay outs). A fixed schedule means that for instance, the dog is rewarded for every third sit. Reward schedules can also be based on response within a certain timeframe. All of these effect how well your dog will respond to your command, how quickly and how often.â€
I don't know how else to explain it. But dogs are not testing you or purposely disobeying. They do not have the cognitive ability to analyze what your mental state is, disobey out of a lack of morals and plot defiance. They're animals and simply get reinforced by their enviroment and respond to competing motivators. They really have little, lemon sized, unconvoluted brains and simply operate by the laws of learning behavior.
What kinds of places are you asking her to sit? What is the environment like?
How long, how many weeks or months has she been reinforced for a nice sit, built duration in a non-distracting environment?
How long has she been reinforced for a nice sit of some duration, starting out with seconds, going to a minute, to 3 minutes with no distractions and then with milder distractions, a person walking by, you dropping a toy, you moving your body?
How long, how many weeks or months has she been reinforced for a nice sit with eye contact of some duration with you... with dogs which are 300 ft. away or more? (just a guess at a lower threshold distance)
It just seems to me that you aren't building behavior. You're throwing her into situations and enviroments where she is guaranteed to fail, thereby not getting an ample amount of opportunity to succeed and build ample reinforcement for single behaviors....then putting them together. You're asking too much too soon. Break things down into smaller parts, reinforce for baby steps. She MUST get reinforced for even approximations to the behavoirs you're looking for in order to build up to the end behavior.
"The type of reward, which can vary, how the dog views it, how often it is delivered, and the timing of the delivery, all have an effect on training. The delivery of a reward must happen within 3 seconds or the dog is onto something else and that behavior will be what you're reinforcing. A somewhat hungry dog will work better for food. He will comply and perform better for tastier rewards. If you start out with less tasty rewards then give a better treat, that treat will have more value.
Most all professional dog trainers use some type of schedule of reinforcement for rewards. Rewards are delivered on a continuous, variable, or fixed ratio of reward to behavior. A continuous schedule means that each time the dog is cued to sit and sits, he is rewarded. A variable schedule means that the dog’s reward for sitting varies from one instance to the next (this is not a totally random delivery of reinforcement because there will be a certain average number of sits required, much like a slot machine works on an average number of pay outs). A fixed schedule means that for instance, the dog is rewarded for every third sit. Reward schedules can also be based on response within a certain timeframe. All of these effect how well your dog will respond to your command, how quickly and how often.â€
I don't know how else to explain it. But dogs are not testing you or purposely disobeying. They do not have the cognitive ability to analyze what your mental state is, disobey out of a lack of morals and plot defiance. They're animals and simply get reinforced by their enviroment and respond to competing motivators. They really have little, lemon sized, unconvoluted brains and simply operate by the laws of learning behavior.
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