11th July 2007
Besides the concepts you already know, there is a fundamental aspect that is usually overlooked in dog training guides: consistency and the development of dog habits.
Consistency leads to the development of strong behavior patterns: habits. Therefore, ...
11th July 2007
There are five main stages of dog training:
1. Learning new behaviors
2. Generalization of learned behaviors
3. Discrimination of commands
4. Reliability of learned behaviors
5. Fluency
This article explains you these stages of dog train...
30th June 2007
The first step in clicker dog training is to charge the clicker. That means to get your dog to associate the sound of the clicker with good things. Then, you can use the clicker as a marker signal to mark good behaviors of your dog.
While this is very ...
30th June 2007
To understand how classical conditioning works in dog training, you are going to do a simple dog training exercise. You are not going to teach any practical skill to your dog but this is a very important exercise to understand the first step in dog traini...
10th April 2007
-- Step # 1: Don't miss the theoretical framework --
Get some dog training books, videos and magazines to deepen your knowledge. Reading some books and watching some videos is a must, even if you are thinking to enroll in a training school. But be car...
10th April 2007
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a dog trainer? Here you will find the requirements you should fulfill and the time it may take you to make your dream come true.
Before considering a career in dog training, you should consider some important requireme...
07th April 2007
Developed a long time ago, this is the same technique used to train dolphins (although using whistles instead of clickers) and other captive animals.
Clicker dog training is an amazing technique. It is easy, fast and mainly based on positive reinforcem...
04th April 2007
From a wide perspective, dog behavior training is a simple process: you have to reward desired behaviors, and to reprimand or ignore non-desired ones.
But, how to properly reward or reprehend the behavior of your dog? Well, you must use the principles...
19th February 2007
Air scent dogs are the best-known type of SAR dogs. They are used to find victims of avalanches and urban disasters, drowned people, human remains in crime scenes, etc.
Unlike tracking dogs, air scent ones seek in the surroundings for any human scent (...
10th February 2007
Tracking dogs follow a lost person's path from a starting point to where the person is. These dogs are able to seek lost people because they are trained to discriminate human scents. In other words, they don't seek for any human scent, but for one particu...
15th January 2007
Despite all the technological and scientific advances, such as GPS, satellite images and robots, dogs are still one of the best tools of any search and rescue (SAR) team.
While the victim of a disaster undergoes an almost eternal nightmare hoping that ...
07th January 2007
"Allowing your dog to sleep in your bed will make of him a terrible monster. He will think he is the leader of the pack and, then, you will have to be his servant."
That's what, according to the alpha dog theory, would happen if you let your dog to sle...
07th January 2007
Attack dogs are dogs trained to bite people on command. Although these dogs are usually associated with police work, they had different uses in the history of human-canine relationship. Hundreds of years ago, attack dogs were used to break the first line ...
16th November 2006
Traditional dog training was initially developed to train war dogs. It was very useful during World War I. This training technique was embraced by civilian trainers after World War II, and quickly became the standard way to train dogs.
It seems that Co...
16th November 2006
Positive dog training was developed under the principles of Skinner's operant conditioning. While it's not a new technique, it didn't get enough popularity until the nineties.
Former students of Skinner, psychologists Keller and Marian Breland, pioneer...
