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Problem Behaviours

Replacing A Bad Behaviour With A Good One

Madeleine Ross, CPDT-KA, November 8 2018

It is much more efficient and effective to teach your puppy how to do the thing you'd like, rather than teach them not to do the thing you don't like. For example, you could teach a dog not to jump to get attention, but what if the next attention seeking behaviour they tried was even worse? You'd have to start the training all over again to elimina...

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Canine Behavioural Science

Canine Learning Theory & Why Dogs Jump

Madeleine Ross, CPDT-KA, November 8 2018

The first rule of dog training is that "all behaviour that gets reinforced, gets repeated." This means that when a dog gets something that they want out of a behaviour, they are more likely to try it again in the future. A common example of this is dogs that jump up onto people. If the jumping behaviour is repeating over and over again, then that m...

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