This class will help you teach
your dog alternate behaviors to reactivity, and give you skills to navigate «real life» scenarios.
Equally important is teaching
your dog an alternate behavior:
Not exact matches
Chew toys are also great for offering
dogs the opportunity to display
alternate behaviors.
The goal of training for this problem is to help her learn to be more comfortable around other
dogs, as well as teaching her an
alternate behavior (such as looking at you) to perform and be rewarded for to help prevent her from reacting.
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.
This will help provide a solid foundation for
alternate behavior when other
dogs or triggers do appear.
If you do not like a
behavior, do not simply try to extinguish it; instead, give the
dog an
alternate preferred
behavior to practice in its place.
It will help you understand why
dogs bark or lunge at other
dogs on leash, and it will give you tools to manage your
dog's
behavior and teach them an
alternate behavior to barking and lunging on leash.
«Leave it» redirects your
dog and then «sit» provides an
alternate, incompatible
behaviors that can help in particular because it's almost impossible for a
dog to sit and chase / bite the tail at the same time.
The key to changing thisdog
behavior is to substitute an
alternate such as asking your
dog tosit when she starts barking.
Training your
dog a more appropriate,
alternate behavior on walks can also help you distract your
dog should he decide to mark.
For these
dogs, teach an
alternate behavior such as Leave it (here's a step - by - step guide) or Come.
The clicker trainer provides this
dog with an
alternate wanted
behavior to replace the unwanted
behavior.
Trying to suppress these «hardwired»
behaviors, without providing
alternate outlets for their energy, can be difficult and is not fair to the
dog.
For both
dogs and their people, ignore the mistakes, reinforce the positive, train an
alternate behavior, build confidence, and most of all have fun!
If your
dog is «overly - enthusiastic» or out of control, learn to teach impulse control, manage, teach
alternate behaviors, and desensitize your
dog's triggers without using punishment.
You can punish the
dog by adding an unpleasant consequence, you can help the
behavior stop on its own by removing the motivator, and you can train the
dog to perform an
alternate or incompatible action in place of the undesirable
behavior.
The preferred goal is to work with the
dogs to help them learn to be calm around each other in these types of exciting situations — sometimes we may teach an
alternate behavior that can be rewarded, like sending both
dogs to separate crates or mats anytime the doorbell rings and rewarding them there.
You can ask your
dog for an
alternate behavior, but they may not listen to your command until they stop doing that no - no.
Modifying problem
dog behavior using positive reinforcement, takes many daily set ups - presenting your
dog with the stimulus (cause) that produces his unwanted
behavior so that «you» can work him through his issues and teach him an
alternate, acceptable
behavior — all done in the environment in which the
behavior occurs, all done using positive reinforcement.
During these classes you will learn why your
dogs react the way they do towards other
dogs and how to teach them
alternate, more desirable
behaviors, using only reward based, positive reinforcement techniques.
Training an
alternate behavior will keep the
dog's mind focused on accomplishing the task rather than going on a greeting frenzy.