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Unacceptable dog behavior

Friday, October 9th, 2009

How about every time your dog steps on your feet?
Don’t you think your dog knows where each of his feet are, and where they belong?
Or, how about his tail? Does he accidentally smack you as he goes by?
Maybe he clears your coffee table as he moves past?

Certainly, you can’t expect your dog to understand that this long, unwieldy appendage can rearrange your knick-knacks or whatever.
“Maybe it’s best to keep him out of those areas. Besides, he’s like a bull in a china shop.
” We don’t need to put up with these sorts of “unavoidable” impositions on our lives or property.
“But, surely there’s no way to correct such innocent impositions”. *

If you believe that, then you’ve wasted your time reading this manual.
Either start over again, or reexamine your thinking.
Let’s look at how you might remedy these situations.
Remember, your dog is going to model your behavior and act in kind. You set the standard for good behaviors by demonstration.
Every puppy goes through a mouthing stage.
It’s usually out grown by the end of teething.
That means he needs to chew something to cut new teeth. Provide appropriate items to be chewed.
Everything else is not to be touched.
Establish appropriate mouth behavior right from first contact.
There’s no excuse for being abused by your dogs teeth until he’s finished teething.
There’s no such thing as being too young to learn any behavior, within the physical limits of his body. His brain is ready to be programmed to learn everything he will ever need to know by the age of 18 days old.
Training your dog is not much different than creating a filing system.
Just as you address each page that appears on your screen, each behavior your dog performs should be dealt with before moving on to something else.

Of course, if you are not prepared to cope with a behavior because of, perhaps time restrictions, make note of that behavior and set and appointed time to re create the situation and address it totally.

The first instance your dog puts his mouth on you is to be regarded as an issue. Each time you permit any inappropriate behavior to continue without being address, you are setting the precedent for more of the same behavior. *

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Labrador training: installing a conditioned response

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

* How To Install A Conditioned Reflex Teach Any Command In Minutes
Just as a child steps into the street without being aware of the meaning of the blast of a car horn, and continues on his way in oblivion, it takes experiences to become conditioned. I’ll bet that when you step off of a curb, and hear a car horn blow, your head spins both ways at once, as you jump back, looking for the impending accident.

The difference is conditioning.

This is going to require a few minutes of practice, outside of the presence of your dogs. It would be preferable to do this with any family members available, but may be successfully done alone.

What we need to do is develop a sense of timing. Here is where the previously called for cans with the pennies will come in. Have the cans rinsed clean and dry. Insert six pennies in each can, tape the top shut, and crush the sides of the cans, so as to make them square to prevent the cans from rolling, to avoid creating a prolonged sound.!
Silence is Golden!

It is imperative that you handle these cans silently!
At any time, should these training aids accidentally create a sound, praise must accompany the event. This will tell the dog you were not addressing his behavior, and that he should disregard the incident.
When more than one dog is present, and any dog is being addressed through the use of sound, each dog must be individually praised and acknowledged with direct eye contact and non-physical praise.

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What is conditioned reflex in a labrador?

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Conditioned reflex was discovered by Dr. Ian Pavlov in the first decade of this century. He came upon this discovery quite by accident while working with some dogs in an experiment for human psychology.
He noticed that some of the dogs coming to his research laboratory began to drool in anticipation of the food rewards that were going to be offered during his experiment, even prior to entering the laboratory.
This piqued his curiosity to the point that he needed to see what was going on. He invited some dogs to stay in the lab for this study. No doubt, you have heard of “Pavlov’s’ bell”. If not, surely you’ve heard the expression “that rings a bell”. Well, that’s where it comes from. The dogs were presented with some liver while a bell was struck.

After several occasions of this conditioning, the bell was struck without the promised treat. The dogs naturally got excited anticipating the liver, and began to salivate (drool).
Thus, the discovery of conditioned reflex. * Conditioned reflex is just that.

Conditioning, which simply put means the same stimuli, presented in the same manner, so as to be exact, and reflex, that is to say, a reaction that one has no control over.

Be aware, that in order to successfully meet these criteria, each element must be adhered to precisely. That is to say, the exact same treat presented with the exact same sound, in the exact same manner each time.

Be aware that we are not suggesting that you use any food for our purposes, as it would be contra-indicated.
You can successfully use these methods in your puppy training routine.

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