Tuesday, April 5, 2011

No more NRMs

Today, I tried not saying anything to Morgan when she messed up her weave poles and it was like night and day. If she missed her entry, I would not throw the bumper, but I would smile at her grab her collar and enthusiastically send her again. She seemed to stop and think, why no toy? Then she would actually alter what she was doing the second time and fix it. It seems my NRM must have interfered with her problem solving. All she could think about was what she did wrong. With no reward and silence from me, she started thinking about how she could get me to throw the bumper again. YAY! After all, isn't that the point? I thought by saying something I would let her know when she was going wrong but it seems it is better to let her figure it out for herself. I started seeing her think about her mistakes much more today. I hope it continues.

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