What Is the Most Valuable Treat for Your Dog?
When it comes to rewarding your dog, considering the salience of the value is as important as the nutritional quality or what you are offering. Many pre-packaged dog food treats are…
Dog Blog & Treats
Crate Training 101
Patience, kindness and persistence go a long way when teaching any new skill in life. This is of course also true when it comes to introducing a crate to your…
consequences for nuisance behaviors
One of the first things I taught my puppy Zeldi is to settle on the floor during food preparations, human and canine. She knows that very well. as soon as…
“Greed” in the context of dog training
When talking about greed in the context of teaching dogs I think of the following: The lack of generosity in rewarding behaviors you want to promote Asking for too…
Thinking from the dog’s point of view
The general advice for extinguishing unwanted behaviors is to “ignore” those behaviors. I think that simply saying “ignore the behavior” is not exactly the right way to put it. If…
Rewarding Dogs Without Food
Recently I learned more about the Premack principle in a webinar given by Kathy Sdao who is an admirable animal trainer. I was interested in learning more about how I…