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I am going to link this video since it illustrates what we are talking about. In this video I told the client “For this exercise we are not focusing on the name as the focus of this Escape conditioning lesson, rather we are focusing on the word ‘No’. She was repeating the name too many times during this exercise as well so I should have just told her to only say the name once at the beginning. But this leads to another question I have. Do we say the name EVERYTIME we start over after the dog makes a mistake or do we only say it when we are switching to a new command? I believe in the P1 command structure chart it says to start over and say the name again. But in the full command structure chart it does not have an arrow saying to return to the name after the dog does not try or makes a mistake.
In this video we only focused on ONE command the entire clip, we did not switch from one command to another then another, that is why I did not tell her to say the name since we were not switching commands. ButI like what you said Ally about even if we are not working on the name in this particular exercise as the focus you still believe in practicing it anyway so the client does not think that we don’t have to say the name sometimes. but i am interested to see what Mike or someone else would say about this too since I do not want the client saying the name at the same time as giving a correction.
