cml wrote:It sounds like you are doing pretty well, but personally, we had no luck with rewarding silence or ignoring screaming. Stitch used to do his contact call when he was a baby, but we trained him to only use a wolf whistle as his contact call.
What you do is that you choose a sound he makes that you like, and then you praise him for that, and nothing else. Ignore everything else, but as soon as he makes that sound, RUN (and I mean that you should really RUN) to him, praise him, give him treats and make a big fuss. Its important that he realizes that this was because of the sound you are trying to get him to use, hence the need for speed.
As I said, ignore everything else.
In our case we had to do it this way, as just ignoring the screaming got us nowhere, where as this completely removed the screaming issue in a matter of weeks.
dan4 wrote:Ive ignored my IRN's screaming for a year now, my ears bleed and still he carries on. 3hours today already, ignoring doesnt work most likely because that is why they are making the fuss in the first place. Im going to change battle plans to rewarding the cute chirps
eggplantbren wrote:We taught him to stop screaming by teaching him that screaming clearly causes good things to go away (not bad things to happen, don't use punishment!)
Michael wrote:eggplantbren wrote:We taught him to stop screaming by teaching him that screaming clearly causes good things to go away (not bad things to happen, don't use punishment!)
That's still punishment. Just an effective application of negative punishment.
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