How the Best Professional Dog Trainers Use Reinforcement #94

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Have you ever watched a really well-trained dog, like a police dog, world champion agility dog, or service dog, and noticed that they seem to be working without getting any food or toy reward from their handler? You might have tried the same with your dog, but your dog said, “no reward, no thanks!”. We’re looking at why some dogs appear to work brilliantly with no reinforcement.

In the episode you'll hear:

• The confusion out there about how reinforcement works. • How elite dog trainers use reinforcement. • Why the work can become massively valuable for dogs. • About stacking reinforcement. • The 5 categories of reinforcement that I use. • How attention can be a reward. • About the obvious reinforcers like food or toys. • Why the cues your dog knows can be powerful reinforcers. • How activities can be reinforcing. • Why rewarding activities need to have permission. • What a transactional relationship is and how it relates to dogs. • Why we want a partnership with our dogs. • The inadvertent reinforcement you might be giving your dog. • How all dogs have a hierarchy of reinforcement. • Why a partnership with us becomes intrinsically reinforcing for dogs.

Resources:

• YouTube Video with Susan Garrett and Steve White (Two Dog Training Experts 70+ Years of Experience Talk Reinforcement) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azaRcHN2CUQ • Podcast Episode 16: The Thing Before Your Dog’s Thing - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/16/ • Podcast Episode 80: Does Your Dog Love You? Let’s Talk Relationships - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/80/ • Podcast Episode 11: The Power of Permission in Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/11/ • Podcast Episode 2: Reinforcement - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/2/ • Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/jwZyBAYe6FY