08/09/2026
It always seems like common sense that we should ignore or correct our dogs when they make errors in training but so often it results in dogs who lack confidence, switch off, check out or ramp up the craziness.
It can be incredibly toxic for low drive, environment focused or independent dog.
Instead errorless learning is a way of making it easy for our dog to be successful 100% (or as close as possible) while we slowly change and fade out our prompts.
Otto hasn't done target training in a while so forgot he should touch and not grab.
I used this as an opportunity to record a video to share.
NOTE: the use of saying "no" as a non reward marker in this video is purely for demonstration purposes. Otto is a confident learner and was well compensated for a few minutes of me training badly!
