Sentences with phrase «appropriate alternate behaviors»

So my goal is to find appropriate alternate behaviors to reinforce and prevent the unwanted behaviors from being exhibited.

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However, a better understanding of how dogs learn clearly demonstrates that behaviors such as failure to obey a command, excessive barking, or pulling on the leash, occur mainly because these behaviors have been inadvertently reinforced, and alternate, more appropriate behaviors have not been implemented.

Training your dog a more appropriate, alternate behavior on walks can also help you distract your dog should he decide to mark.

If the case history suggests that the animal's behavior is the expression of a normal part of its behavioral repertoire, or ethogram, but in the wrong place or time, one intervention solution would be to provide the animal with an alternate, appropriate context for the behavior.