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Chirag Patel- Domesticated Manners (The bucket game)

Animal Training Academy

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The Bucket Game: Empowering Animals and Teaching Voluntary Behaviors

This chapter discusses the 'bucket game', a training technique that focuses on choice and empowerment for animals. The game involves using a target, typically a visual container of food, to teach the animal to orient towards it and maintain a calm posture. The chapter explains the importance of teaching the animal how to behave around the food in order to avoid interfering with reinforcement delivery.

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