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HISTORY OF BAT & FRUSTRATION

When I first developed BAT (that’s BAT 1.0), the technique was done differently based on two categories, where the functional reward here is the consequence gained by showing the reactive behavior:

• Functional Reward = Moving toward the trigger
• Functional Reward = Moving away from the trigger

I came up with the term “Frustrated Greeter” for those dogs whose functional reward was to approach the trigger and when they got there, they were friendly (but maybe inept). Having joined the No Labels movement, I now no longer use that term, but when I speak of dogs whose behavior fits that category, I say “dogs with frustration issues” or I talk about the barking/lunging from a distance as a “frustrated greeting.”

The BAT 1.0 technique for frustration was then to basically do Mark and Move (a BAT 2.0 term) but rather than moving away from the trigger, you’d mark and take a step closer to the trigger, since that’s what the dog most likely wants. This was indeed reinforcing (it’s the Premack principle, after all) and it worked in many cases but in some cases it would cause more arousal for the same reasons listed above where I say we shouldn’t lead the dog toward the trigger. I find that the current way of doing BAT for frustration is mellower and works more quickly.

As I’ve said before, if you want your dog to look like any other “boring” dog around various triggers, she needs to practice being boring (not bor-ed, though). So BAT 2.0, which is the relaxed exploration of an area, even with a trigger in the space, fits that model perfectly.
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