Ep 037 Praise: The ONE Thing in Dog Obedience

Praise is the only method of training that creates true obedience in your dog.

Learn the ways to use Praise, and some ways you might be misusing it.

In this episode, you’ll learn why your attempts of training your dog may have backfired on you.

The problem we are striving to solve today is to fully understand how you are using praise throughout your dog training.
Why does Bennie say that Praise is the only method (or main tool) to use for dog training?
Briefly, Bennie explains why Motivation and Correction are to be eliminated as methods of training.
Devin continues to ask questions about why correction can’t create a willingness to obey.
The first postulate Bennie talks about is: Praise is the only way you are truly teaching your dog. It is the only way you are going to get her to do what you want in a way she is willing to do that thing.
Discover how we are laying groundwork to really communicating with your dog from the very first moment you get your new dog.
The second postulate states: Touch is the biggest reward you can give your dog. Any time you touch her you are rewarding her for the behavior she happens to be doing at that time.
Discussion goes very in-depth as to why touch is so important in your dog’s life.
Why do some people teach that touching a dog can correct behaviors and yet Bennie says NO!
Talk goes to how touch can even reinforce behavior that you don’t want from your dog.
Devin brings up how it is not always a choice from your dog, sometimes you are just responding to a reaction from your dog and reinforcing that reaction.
What does eye-contact mean to your dog?
Bennie puts Devin on the spot and asks if he remembers what we have talked about in past episodes. All the way back to Episode 000.

No homework this week! Enjoy the break, because we’re back at it next week.

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