Spending ten or fifteen minutes a day working with your dog, and then
consistently rewarding your dog for positive behavior, can make a huge difference.
If
you consistently reward the dog no matter how he performs the selected behavior, you will have two things happen.
Not exact matches
At first, it
consistently rewards a dolphin or
dog (or, in this case, a woman) for reacting to a stimulus.
Including the owner in the
dog's training process and working
consistently with them throughout training is what makes in - home training so unique, effective, and
rewarding for both
dog and owner.
As a
reward - based
dog trainer, I believe in
consistently setting the
dog up for success, and to avoid extreme training techniques, including those that involve heavy dominance and aggressive tactics.
As your
dog responds to the command more
consistently, you can begin to phase out the food
reward so he doesn't become dependent on it.
The good news is that we can easily use the way
dogs learn to «sculpt» their behavior, by
consistently rewarding the desirable behaviors we see and ignoring or interrupting the undesirable behaviors.
Once your
dog is
consistently walking close to you, you can begin to give him «jackpots» — where you randomly
reward him with a quick series of 5 -6-7 treats, one after the other.
Multiple pet owners must introduce their new pups slowly to the rest of the pack,
consistently doling out equal attention, commands, and
rewards across all of the
dogs.
Before you even pick up a clicker, you have to be prepared to
reward your
dog consistently and on time.
Part of interacting with a
dog of any age involves
consistently rewarding all desirable behaviors - thus increasing the likelihood the
dog will repeat those behaviors - and to take steps to prevent the development of undesirable behavior.
If one pet parent
consistently asks for an incompatible behavior — let's say a sit — and often
rewards that sit, the
dog will begin to sit and will cease jumping if he gets zero out of it.
If you do this
consistently, your
dog will learn that every time your child requests a behavior, you will too — so she might as well respond to your child and earn a
reward more quickly.
Never
reward a
dog that is growling, lunging, barking, whining,
consistently attempting to escape, or trembling.
This could be the mechanism behind the popup reminders that have
consistently dogged Windows 10 users, reminding them of the Windows 10 deadline and Bing
Rewards, among others.