The Dog’s Way Podcast, with professional dog trainer Sean McDaniel, deals with practical dog obedience for real life situations. Sean gives you underlying theory and practical training assignments based in a more naturalistic dog training philosophy to help you solve the most common dog behavior issues. Sean shares his experience from over fifteen years of working with clients and their dogs, dealing with behavior modification, functional dog obedience issues and everyday dog training issues. In the “dog training podcasts”, Sean leaves you with homework assignments to help you begin practically dealing with your dog’s issues. Sean also, interviews leading dog issue experts in topics such as: your dog’s diet, veterinary medicine, puppy raising, dog breeding and selecting the right dog for you.
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;
- Preparing for a walk
- Preparing for feeding time
- The “Getting out of a car” ritual
- Going through the front door ritual
- Going through the gate at the dog park ritual
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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