Today I enjoyed a fun ‘training’ session with Bailey at the kennels where he is staying. Bailey has the habit of running away when called, which leads to frustrated carers but could also lead to less freedom in the future, so today we worked on a joyful response to a recall cue. Bailey’s recalls were
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In 2014, I published a blog post entitled Jambo’s Hierarchy of Rewards in which I discussed the different reinforcers I use when training and the ‘value’ they have for my learner. In my article entitled Rewards and Positive Reinforcement Consequences, I discussed the meaning of rewards versus reinforcement. In this article I would like to
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The language we use when discussing our training methods can sometimes be slightly misleading. Much discussion is given to the use of terms such as force-free, rewards based and positive reinforcement. Sometimes there will be shared-meaning and at other times, these terms will be used and attributed to diametrically opposed training methods. The words ‘reward’
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Teaching Your Dog to Like Praise Praise must be rewarding to your dog in order for you to use it as part of an effective training program. To understand what type of praise is valued by your dog experiment with the following: What tone of voice does your dog like? High pitch? Low
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It makes me cringe and its unwise to say “just ignore the problem behavior”! By Niki Tudge Last week while perusing my Facebook news feed while I drank my morning coffee I came across a link to a blog advocating for force-free dog training methods. This short blog had a video link which was showing
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Teaching helps your learner to develop new and more appropriate skills. Punishment in a given context may temporarily suppress the problem behavior but has a teaching moment all of its own!. Punishing teaches your child or pet that you may be the cause of fear or pain. You can be scary and should be feared! Think about
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