[Dogs, training] I'm just about finished with Grisha Stewart's BAT 2.0 book, and tucked in an appendix at the back is a really clever bit of social engineering, I thought.
She uses "Treat Party!" as an emergency recall cue. Her reasoning being that people
1) are less likely to use the cue and not follow it up with a big reward, because it feels more like "lying" to the dog than a cue like "Here" or "Come" and
2) find it a little silly to shout in public, so aren't going to overuse the cue in non-emergency situations.
1) are less likely to use the cue and not follow it up with a big reward, because it feels more like "lying" to the dog than a cue like "Here" or "Come" and
2) find it a little silly to shout in public, so aren't going to overuse the cue in non-emergency situations.
It's definitely something I'm implementing, because even though I see the social engineering, I know it'll totally work on me, haha.
