The Dog’s Way Podcast: Dog Training for Real Life
Kids & Family:Pets & Animals
In this episode I talk about natural transitional rewards. Many may not have heard the term, but a lot of you may have used them in the training of your dog whether you realize it or not. If you want to do a real dive into the behavioral part of training, I encourage you to listen to my two episodes on conditioning - Session 73: Skinner's Four Quadrants Part One, and Session 74: Skinner's Four Quadrants Part Two.
I'll talk about the conditioning baked into every day interactions with your dog (like the feeding ritual). The same thing goes for when we are preparing for a walk. Those rituals can be a good thing. But it's it's more than simply the obedience skill you're teaching - it's the nervous system state that is occurring during that sit/stay and from the moment that you give the command to "break free" or say "all done". I'll describe how those commands and practices get embedded in their head, and how that fixation needs to be inhibited in certain instances.
Here are a couple of other instances where you might practically use this training;
I'll talk about how sometimes we unintentionally signal to our dog when we reward certain types of gregarious responses is "I love it when you freak out and run around when I do this action!" Identifying those habits is a real eye-opener to what you might want to consider adjusting during these routines.
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Session 19: How to become a registered therapy dog team
Session 18: The overview of what to teach a puppy and when, and teaching two dogs to not go after each other’s fetch toys
Session 17: Teaching your puppy to greet people, and teaching your adult dog to learn to be brave around things like vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers
SESSION 16: Nose work games and how to condition your dog to using a muzzle.
Session 15: Step by step plan to help with grooming procedures.
SESSION 14: Protocol for solving problems when your dog is at the office.
SESSION 13: Questions from the email bag
SESSION 12: interview with Michael and Elizabeth Kohl
SESSION 11: In this episode I interview Laura Tonkin
Session 10
SESSION 9: Puppy Stuff: How to pick a puppy from a litter | Adult Dog Stuff: How to condition your dog to like having a bath
SESSION 8: Interview with Dr. Jake Tedaldi, author of What’s Wrong with My Dog
SESSION 7: How to introduce a new puppy into your home when you already have an existing dog. And, Sean goes through some of the problem solving in a question from an email when a dog has shown aggres
SESSION 6: Puppies meeting, greeting and interaction with other dogs and puppies and our for dogs over 7 months old: Try our New Year’s 21 day behavioral challenge!
SESSION 5: House breaking for puppies and preparing your dog to be better behaved during holiday parties.
SESSION 4: Follow up on homework from Session 3 & switch gears to learn how to train younger puppies.
SESSION 3: Learn how to structure your dog’s lifestyle more.
Session 2: Starting out – Are you having some “policy” disagreements with your dog?
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