This is Thor’s turn in this series of videos. I had tried the 300 Peck method on all three of them without much success. But I wanted to give it a good chance, so I continued it with usually calm Thor for a week. This was his last session with it. He’d been up to a minute Duration using just random reinforcement, but dropped down to seconds with this method.

As with all the other videos, my counting is, um, a little approximate. I’m trying to split in half the kibble as we go, so sometimes I’m a little late, sometimes a little early. The windup clock in the background doesn’t let me get away with much.

I must have been distracted with getting kibble in the first section because I actually click/treat after he breaks. In the second section, it happens just as he breaks, again at 6 seconds. You can see me pull my hand back, wishing I hadn’t done that. (I don’t think I was rewarding him at that exact 6-second break time in the other sessions, but I don’t have it on video to prove otherwise.) The tape runs out, but 3 sections later he makes it to 10 seconds, only to break again at 6. This was with no additional Distractions: we sat in the exact same place, using (to the best of my counting and treat-juggling abilities) the same method.

I gave up after this and went to the 80% method I used for Mox and Gus. It took a couple of times, but he settled down again and caught back up with Moxie at 16 seconds.