Premacks Principle is a behavioural term that means ‘find an activity the subject likes naturally and use that as a reward’. Well this is very easy with young Barney as he ❤️ LOVES a wither scratch. He spends lots of time insisting Pie and Blondie do mutual grooming with him. And this is an easy one to incorporate into training as you can see. Even when you’re as light and fairy like getting on as me 🙄 you want a horse to line up at the mounting block and stand completely still and wait while y

The Premack principle or response deprivation can be applied to many areas of working dog training. The video is from yesterdays session with Kazan.We have been training him to do scent detection during the last two months and he has a high anticipation on that activity. Here we use that to train transportation. He has done many sessions on a brick wall in the building and thus has a high motivation to get in there. If he leaves the correct position, the handler stops or turns away from the entr