If someone were to say to you, I'm a reinforcement-based dog trainer, that actually could be a number

of different things. And today, I'm going to go over the main differences between reinforcement-based

dog training.

Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And you may not realize that there's a lot of different ways. Somebody may train their dog if they are a reinforcement-based dog trainer. Now,

the first one that most people would think about is luring, where you put a

food lure between your fingers and you lure the dog. But that is one of four or five or maybe

even six main ways that somebody could train their dog. And those five or six main ways aren't all

very dramatically different.

It's rare for somebody to use all five or six of them. Actually, I don't even know if it would

be possible. Let's find out. Methodology number one, I just said. It's luring. And so there's a

formula which is lure, behavior, reward. Meaning, you get the dog

luring with something they love. That's really important. You can't just say, oh, I'm just going to

pick a piece of food out of my pocket. My dog's going to follow it. The dog has

to love it. All right? So, lure to get a behavior. If you wanted your dog to sit,

you would put the cookie over their head. And that would cause like gravity to help the

butt to want to go to the ground. And so, you're going to get the dog in a sitting

position. And that is the behavior part of the lure behavior award. And then you deliver the food

to the dog. Okay? So, it's important to know, it's not just food that you can use for

luring. A lot of basic dog training is done by many, many people all over the world done

with a lure of some sort. So, you could use a tennis ball. If your dog loves tennis balls,

you could put the tennis ball up in the air or put the tennis ball on your hip if you wanted

your dog to walk on a nice loose leash beside you. There's a lot of different

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