a bottle/tin with pebbles , how does this work?

[hermykne]

Hi
just surfing some other threads and i see this aid being suggested at certain behaviours/actions
is it basically a bottle with pebbles and when the dog does something that you do wish him/her to do , this is a distraction aid to stop interrupt the action and then you carry on??
TIA

[Mewzard]

It's a negative association "meathod". So, for example, my pup Oka kept jumping up at the kitchen counters. I tried using a clicker to reward her for getting down from them but she would jump up then down and look for a treat. After trying for over a week - and she'd jump up loads i asked for help.

It was recommended to me to put pebbles in a tin (eg coke can) and every time she went to jump, you'd shake it, she didn't like the sound so would stop before jumping (or fully jumping). Within 1 day she had almost totally stopped jumping up ... She only occasionally jumps up if she's having a naughty moment but it's not once every 5 minutes.

Hope this helps!

[Stuart]

This is about the only `negitive method` training I have done,.. but I must admit it is one that seems to work very well.
Sam was our jumper, and it needed to be stopped, so we put small stones into a small plastic coke bottle, and every time he jumped,.[ in fact just as you see the jump start ] shake the bottle hard.

Stopped him within days,... there is the odd time when he thinks about doing it again, especialy if he is excited, but the bottle is by the gate, and just lifting it up stops him

[bluebell]

Our new boy's favourite 'toy' so far is a dirty old bottle with stones rattling around in it - weird, huh?

And when I say bottle I mean one of those huge ones that goes into the top of a water cooler. He flings it up in the air and makes weird howling/sex noises when it bangs around on the ground - wish I had a video camera