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4 August 26
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.
June 30, 2023
How to prepare your cat for 4th of July fireworks?
While fireworks may be beautiful to behold, they can also be disastrous for any wildlife in the vicinity affected by their booming sound and vibrant,…
June 30, 2023
Dog Christmas presents: A list of 12 gift ideas for your dog!
The race against time has begun. There are only a dozen or so days left until Christmas. Have you already chosen a gift for your dog? You don’t…
June 30, 2023
How to keep your dog and cat safe on Halloween: Practical Tips
Halloween is the perfect time of year to celebrate ghosts, goblins, ghouls and all manner of things that terrify and fascinate our imaginations.
June 30, 2023
Do Dogs Need to Make Mistakes to Learn?
Do dogs need mistakes—or frustration—to learn? A careful look at errorless-learning research, extinction, and what clearer training design changes in practice.
June 30, 2023
How to choose a perfect harness suited to dog’s morphology
Shopping for dog’s stuff is my second biggest passion after dog sports. I find myself always in the pursuit of the coolest toy, the warmest…
June 30, 2023
New Year’s Eve survival tips – what to do if dog is scared of fireworks?
New Year’s Eve is coming! Tromplo Team wishes you a Happy New Year with plenty of positive reinforcement available! Unfortunately for many animals…
June 30, 2023
Impulse control – mindset matters pt. 2 of 2
A helpful way to re-frame the debate around impulse control is to think of it less like an exercise in “generalized self-inhibition,” and more like teaching a…
June 30, 2023
Impulse control – mindset matters pt. 1 of 2
One of the more profound things I’ve heard Kay Laurence say is that positive reinforcement trainers need to be careful we are not just…
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