Training Vocabulary: Proofing
Have you ever taught your new puppy to sit, and then tried to show their new trick to your friend? Even though they had practiced with you just fine, when…
Dog Vocabulary: Counter Conditioning
Most pet parents have one or two things they wish their dog would stop doing. Maybe they bark at strangers, or maybe they are too eager to meet guests and…
Dog Vocabulary: Operant Conditioning
Have you ever taught a puppy to sit on cue? After a few weeks of luring your pup into a sit and repeating a cue word, your pup learns if…
How To Fade The Lure
Luring is a common practice in dog training where the dog trainer uses a food reward or other motivator to guide a dog into a new position. Luring can be…
Dog Vocabulary: Flooding
Many years ago, I was taking one of my dogs for a fun day at a dog training farm. We were working with a trainer to teach Leia how to…
Dog Vocabulary: Desensitization
Learning to live in a human world can be difficult for dogs. Baths, nail trims, haircuts, fireworks and vast non-poopable areas are not found in the wild. In order to…
Dog Vocabulary: Capturing
When training a dog, there are several methods to getting a dog to behave the way we want. We’ve spoken about classical conditioning and shaping as different methods to guide…
Dog Vocabulary: Appeasement Gestures
If you start investigating dog training even a little bit, it’s no time at all before you’re elbow deep in technical words. The dog world is full of complicated sounding…
