Hey everybody today's tip is for dogs who can be under motivated by food here's an example my border collie she loves toys but sometimes she can be very unmotivated or have zero interest in treats so I offer her these treats here and you can see that I dropped them to the floor and she's uninterested in eating them and looks almost punished by the fact that I gave her such disgusting stuff so what can you do if this happens to you or you have a dog that just has more interest in toys rather than food one thing that you can do with your dog is do a treat test so get a variety of different treats some that your dog hasn't had before and see how interested your dog is in each treat so the first treat that I gave to wish which is this kibble she shows no interest in eating so that's not even reinforcement it's it's almost a Punisher to her you see she's hanging her head down low and not looking at me now I will try this other type of kibble so she sniffs it she crunches it and she looks back at me so she found that reinforcing but not amazing now this very expensive raw food treat she swallowed it but doesn't look like amazingly excited but she's still focused on me if you give your dog a treats and you're in a non distracting environment like this room this is the first kibble that I gave her she ate it if you give your dog a treat that they're not very interested in you'll see that they eat it and they look away from you.
Dog Not Interested In Treats Outside
So a signal that your dog is interested in in the food is that after they've eaten the food they say to you with their eyes more pleased and that means that they will look at you or look at the treats so that's the signal that you're looking for now this last treat is boiled chicken that I made and I know for a fact that witch really likes the boiled chicken out of all of these treats and the reason I know that is because she's the most free motivated to eat this chicken once you've found a treat that your dog is interested in I suggest doing a training session just before when your dog is usually fed and we'll make your dog more interested in working for food because he's already ready for his dinner now if you have a dog that's very excited about food you want to avoid times where your dog might be a little bit hungry so if you had a dog very excited about food then you would do the training session maybe after dinner and obviously not work on very exciting tricks where your dog is moving a lot because they've just eaten their dinner it can feel very frustrating if your dog isn't very interested in the treats you have or has low motivation while you're training but there are two things that you want to avoid and that is using words to encourage your dog over and over again because what can happen is every time your dog is not motivated you say those words soon your dog is going to start associating those words with times.
That he hasn't been that interested in food so if you if your dog is acting really slow and you say come on come on come on come on that's not going to help speed your dog up it would help speed your dog up if you said come on and then through a treat or said come on when your dog was excited at times when your dog was excited because then that would help speed them up in the training session but if you start nagging your dog or trying to encourage your dog verbally it can actually be off-putting and sometimes even punishing to the dog another thing that you don't want to do is if your dogs not interested in what you have pushing it in their face waving it around to get them interested in it that can actually have the reverse effect and it can make the dog not interested in what you have because you're being too pushy with it it's like if you don't want to eat a piece of food and someone keeps bothering you to try and give it to you when you know you don't want to eat that it's going to get on your nerves so instead of doing that you can build your dog's motivation for treats that they don't seem as interested in by playing hard-to-get one thing you can do is put a treat down on the ground and walk away from your dog holding the treats like there's something very exciting and you're playing keep away from the dog with the treats rather than going into the dog space with them.
So now they're seeming like something that you really want and you're dropping one and moving away quickly guarding these treats up here like there's something amazing mmm you can even pretend to eat them all these are so good mmm oh my goodness and you can see here that my acting is really working with wish she really wants these treats that she wasn't that interested in earlier another thing you can do is throw the treats so you throw a treat and you can even click your dog for going for the next treat and you can add an exciting noise if you want like where do you study you put awesome and now you can see that wish is quite excited for these treats hey was she if your dog is showing low motivation in a training session I suggest quickly stopping and not trying to work through it because what you can do is create a habit where your dog sees the training picture is something boring and not really that reinforcing so when I see that happen in my training session if suddenly a dog seems disinterested instead of trying to train something new or maintain an existing behavior I'm going to go back and figure out what the dog finds reinforcing and start using that as the reinforcer or just stop the training session and try at a later date when the dog is in a better mood about food motivated dog breeds and I hope you enjoyed this tips.
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