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Why Your Dog Starts Offering Every Familiar Behavior During Shaping
Your dog sits, paws, spins, lies down, and offers every familiar behavior during shaping. Trace reinforcement history and the changed contingency before labeling the learner.
August 4, 2026
Creating Behavior, Not Fixing It: Shaping Through Component Skills
Treat complex behavior as a structure: teach useful component skills separately, plan the joins, and assemble them without asking the learner to guess the whole answer.
June 30, 2023
Get Your Lost Dog Back Home Quickly: Follow These 12 Tips for Success
Vacations favor more frequent and longer walks with our furry friends. We travel, visit new places. Summer makes us loosen our brakes and allow our…
June 30, 2023
Managing Aggressive Dog Behavior: Tips for Peaceful Living
Living with an aggressive dog may seem challenging, but it can be peaceful and manageable with the right approach. One key aspect is to remain…
June 30, 2023
Unlocking the Secret to Successful Puppy Socialization: Quality over Quantity
Today, although the topic is very important, I will keep it brief. Socialization is a topic that could fill books or scientific papers. However, today…
June 30, 2023
4 reasons why online puppy training is better than in-person
Most of the puppy guardians know that they need to train their puppy. But not every puppy will thrive in a puppy training class and…
June 30, 2023
How to Stop Your Dog From Pulling on Leash
Is your dog pulling on the leash every time you go for a walk? This can be incredibly frustrating and problematic for both ends of…
June 30, 2023
Stinky Problem: Why do dogs eat poop?
Since dogs came to live with humans, coprophagia has become a major problem that was almost imperceptible before. It turns out that nearly 20% of…
June 30, 2023
Some fun and functional behaviors to train with your cat and why
Training a cat?! Why would you do that? To distill that question down to a few sentences, training through a positive reinforcement (R+)-based approach with…
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