by Eileen Anderson | Feb 18, 2019 | Animal Behavior, Learning Theory, Training
When we bake cookies, some reinforcement is on a variable interval schedule. Have you heard trainers talking about the matching law? This post covers a bit of its history and the nuts and bolts of what it is about. I...
by Eileen Anderson | Sep 20, 2018 | Animal Behavior, Learning Theory, Training
Zani learns to ring the bells This post is for the people who have tried–and failed–to teach their dogs to ring a bell to go outside. I suspect there are a lot of bell ringing failures out there. Not that...
by BARKS from the Guild | Aug 30, 2018 | Animal Behavior, Training
Guest Post by Karolina Westlund Ph.D There are two important questions to ask before teaching an animal a new skill. In another blog post, I discussed the first question, one that is extremely basic but often overlooked: “what is the...
by Anna Francesca Bradley | May 10, 2018 | Animal Behavior, Training
So…there we are teaching our dogs lots of new things and he’s responding beautifully – treat, treat, treat (yummy!) At what point though, do we stop dishing out all these lovely delicacies? This is a question I’m asked multiple times...
by Niki Tudge | Sep 2, 2017 | Animal Behavior, Training
By Niki Tudge Last week, while perusing my Facebook news feed while I drank my morning coffee, I came across a link to a blog advocating for force-free dog training methods. This short blog had a video link which was …
