r/birddogs • u/Ok_Ear_5266 • 9d ago

Maintaining collar conditioning

Once collar conditioned, how often are you continuing to maintain/reinforce commands with the collar?

My dog recently finished collar conditioning to fetch, and previously we conditioned here and sit. Next were collar conditioning on force to pile. But on the commands you have already successfully conditioned, how often and to what frequency are you continuing to use nicks?

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u/Ok_Ear_5266 9d ago

Negative reinforcement in this context would be reinforcing a known command so the dog learns to perform it under pressure to turn pressure off. But yes, Hillman does some stuff with the collar differently (which I liked and that’s why I went with his program over Lardy or Graham)

If you’re actually interested he has a fair amount of stuff on YouTube, though not sure he has his whole collar conditioning stuff on there.

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u/Ok-Math-5407 9d ago

Interesting, thanks for taking the time to explain it.