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Secrets Of Positive Reinforcement In Dog Training
The biggest secret to training your dog is understanding the method of positive reinforcement. All that’s really necessary after that is lots of patience and consistency. Most problem behaviors in dogs arise from not understanding reinforcement or from not applying it consistently.
To use it consistently, you will need heaps of patience. You need to appreciate the amount of time required to train a dog. You should also appreciate that you need to be consistent every time you are with your dog, not just during training sessions. This means that you also need everyone in your household to be consistent also.
Positive conditioning means that a positive reinforcement i.e. pleasant stimulus when your dog performs some behavior will encourage him to perform that particular action again. Many dog owners will give lots of positive reinforcements when their dog is doing unwanted behaviors. For example, they enter the house, the dog is jumping up on them and they give affection to the dog. They are positively reinforcing their dog to jump up on people without realising it.
If you ever watch the Dog Whisperer on TV, you will see that even though the families have watched his program, maybe even read his books and know intellectually what they should do, they still reward all sorts of unwanted behavior without realising it. The Dog Whisperer doesn’t reinforce negative behaviors. He is always consistent and ignores the dog if it’s doing unwanted behaviors. In virtually every case that he helps, the problems are with the owner and his inconsistency.
It requires a lot of self-discipline and awareness to restrain from giving your dog affection when he is doing an unwanted behavior. You also need to be aware that any attention, even when it’s shouting at your dog “stop barking”, may act as a positive reinforcement. So, the best response to unwanted behaviors in your dog may be to ignore them by turning away from your dog and giving no attention.
Focusing on reinforcing positive behavior is more effective than trying to negatively reinforce unwanted behavior. As the dog is encouraged more and more in positive behaviors, less time will be given by him to negative behaviors which go unrewarded.
Obviously, you may have to stop your dog doing unwanted behaviors For example, if he jumps on the food counter, you can just pull him off.
How do you reinforce behaviors you want to encourage? Possible rewards are tasty treats, affection or a toy to play with. Using small tasty treats is probably the easiest method. The treat needs to be given as close in time to the action as possible. This is where using clicker training makes this process easier. The clicker sound is used to mark the behavior precisely as it happens and the treat comes immediately afterwards. I encourage you to look more into the whole subject of clicker training since it does streamline process of positive reinforcement.
Read more about the Secrets to Dog Training, about dog clicker training and about handling dog behavior problems in general.
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