Behavior Chains: Are You Teaching Your Dog to be Bad to be Good? #42

Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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What if I were to tell you that your dog’s worst behaviour could very likely be there because you have been unintentionally reinforcing it? It might be your dog jumping on guests, barking, getting on the furniture, counter surfing, not wanting to leave the park, lunging, not bringing back a ball. All of these frustrations and many others are things you could be accidentally rewarding your dog for doing. How does this happen? It’s got everything to do with behaviour chains.

In the episode you'll hear:

• How to recognize a behaviour chain and how they work.
• About the reinforcement of social attention for dogs.
• How your words can be associated with rewards.
• About your dog and patterns of reinforcement.
• How your dog learns “gotta be bad to be good”.
• Why your dog doesn't want to leave the park.
• The ways to fix your inadvertent behaviour chains.
• How important reinforcement is and why treats are just one form.
• The example of a simple behavior being turned into a chain with repeated cues.
• How to set up your dog for success.
• About rehearsing the correct end of a behavior chain.

Resources:

• Podcast Episode 2: Reinforcement-https://dogsthat.com/podcast/2/
• Podcast Episode 33: How Do I Stop My Dog Counter Surfing?-https://dogsthat.com/podcast/33/
• Podcast Episode 19: One of My Biggest Pet Peeves in Dog Training-https://dogsthat.com/podcast/19/
• Podcast Episode 29: Understanding and Preventing Reactivity and Aggression in Your Dog-https://dogsthat.com/podcast/29/
• Podcast Episode 39: Is a Resistant Dog a Stubborn Dog?-https://dogsthat.com/podcast/39/
• Podcast Episode 40: Using a Head Halter on a Dog, Why My Approach is so Different-https://dogsthat.com/podcast/40/
• Home School the Dog-https://dogsthat.com/home-school/
• Recallers-https://recallers.com/
• DogsThat.Com-https://dogsthat.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to shape by dog. I am Susan Garrett. And what if I was to tell you that your
0:16.3	dog's absolute worst behavior, your biggest challenge, the thing that drives you the most cray-cray,
0:23.1	could very likely be there because you have been unintentionally or accidentally reinforcing it.
0:32.7	Yes, the thing that you would like to get rid of the most, you may actually have been rewarding
0:38.3	it all along. So, I'm talking about things like dogs jumping on your guests or stealing food
0:44.6	from the counter or the garbage or pulling and lunging at other dogs on leash or barking at you,
0:51.3	maybe when you're trying to make their food or when you're getting ready to go for, take them for a car ride or go to the park, maybe just barking at you, maybe when you're trying to make their food or when you're getting ready to
0:54.5	go for, take them for a car ride or go to the park, maybe just barking at window as,
0:58.7	as people pass by. Your dog getting on the furniture or this one, which actually came in to our
1:05.0	free Facebook group, a dog that when they're on their way out of the park, lies down, puts on the brakes and
1:12.8	will not go. Or a dog that you throw their toy and they don't bring it all the way back.
1:18.7	And you actually have to go out and get it yourself. So, all of these things or any other
1:23.5	things, I'm just giving you some examples. They could very well be there because you
1:30.1	have been accidentally rewarding the dog. True story. First of all, let's talk about what are
1:40.1	reinforcers or what are rewards. There's the obvious, right? For dogs who love food,
1:45.9	there's food that rewards a dog. There are actually toys. Some dogs like toys. Some dogs don't
1:51.2	like toys. Then there's activities. So, when you give a dog a permission to engage in an activity
1:57.7	they love, like going for a swim or going for a car ride, when you give
2:01.3	them permission, you are rewarding what they are doing before you gave them that permission.
2:06.6	Your voice is a reinforcer. Like our padding is reinforcing, right? Touching them. And one of the big
2:13.4	reinforcers for our dogs is our social attention because they are social creatures. They love being around us. So, now that we have a list of all the things that could be rewarding
2:23.8	the dog, let's talk about why or how you might actually have been reinforcing the thing you
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