http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com 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, ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_184762_54.html 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_184761_54.html 11th July 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 ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_179703_54.html 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_179701_54.html 30th June 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_146062_54.html 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_146061_54.html 10th 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_144927_54.html 07th 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_144069_54.html 04th April 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 (... http://www.articlealley.com/article_130142_54.html 19th 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_128290_54.html 10th February 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 ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_120104_54.html 15th 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_117378_54.html 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 ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_117377_54.html 07th January 2007 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_102111_54.html 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_102110_54.html 16th November 2006 Ethology is the science that studies behaviors of a species under natural situations. Therefore, it studies instinctive and non-instinctive behaviors that are typical of a species. Dog whispering is a training technique based on canine ethology. So, it... http://www.articlealley.com/article_102107_54.html 16th November 2006 Though there are several dog training techniques, all of them can be categorized by the way they address behavioral issues. Thus, there are two main categories: techniques based on learning theories and techniques based on canine ethology. The former c... http://www.articlealley.com/article_102094_54.html 16th November 2006 Punishment is a controversial subject in dog training, though it is widely used by both traditional and positive trainers. The most common punishment is positive punishment. It consists in stopping an undesired behavior by adding an unpleasant thing or... http://www.articlealley.com/article_93086_54.html 06th October 2006