Rewarding this alternate behavior lavishly is a must especially during the initial stages of learning.
Not exact matches
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.
2) Interrupting and preventing undesirable
behaviors without physical or psychological intimidation, as well as
rewarding an
alternate response (training a
behavior you find desirable in it's place).
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.
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.