[image_frame style=”shadow” align=”center” height=”560″ width=”800″]http://www.k9services.com.au/wp-content/uploads/GSD-x-Malinois-in-drop-on-grass.jpg[/image_frame] When raising a sporting, service or performance dog there is a common misconception that inhibiting a dog’s expression of instinct towards one stimulus will have an unavoidable negative effect to all other expressions of that instinct. Consider that if this were true then we would have to let our dogs […]
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Partial Science Packaged As The Whole Truth And Wrapped In A Healthy Layer Of Guilt.
[image_frame style=”shadow” align=”center” height=”560″ width=”800″]http://www.k9services.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Motivational-Matrix-Drawing.jpg[/image_frame] Positive reinforcement is only one of four options that a trainer can apply in shaping and modifying behaviour. The higher the skill and experience levels of the dog trainer, the more ability the trainer has to appropriately apply each of the 4 options in a way that is best suited […]