Have you ever picked up your dog's bowl and walked across the room and there could be nothing

in it yet your dog gets excited? Or maybe picked up a set of car keys and walked to the door

or had your dog go cray cray when the

doorbell rang. If you answered yes to any of that, then you, my friend, have experienced

the magic of conditioning. And today I'm going to share with you why it's so important

you understand what's going on and how you can use it to your advantage. Hi,

I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. Conditioning is something we've spoke about on this

podcast many times. An episode number 39, I talked about deciding if a dog is being stubborn

or is it really conditioning that's gone on? Now, if you look at things like your

dog food bowl, if you have a dog who loves food, then they're going to go crazy when they see

the bull because they've been conditioned to expect food is about to be delivered when you see

the bull. Think back to the Russian scientist Pavlov and

he did the experiment where he took an unconditioned response ringing a bell, paired it with an

unconditioned stimulus, a piece of meat and very quickly the unconditioned response became a conditioned

response because it predicted

the something that the animal loved or wanted to have happened and that was a piece of meat

appeared. All right? And so that's exactly what happens when a dog sees a dog football. I'm

going to go through a few things. Now, what happens is when animals are being conditioned, one of three things can

happen. They can go, oh my gosh, that's good. Oh my gosh, that's bad or that's meaningless.

I've learned to ignore that. All right. Now, as dog owners, we don't want the, oh my gosh, that's bad response. Believe me, you may say,

oh, no, no, no, Susan, I want my dog to know that it's bad to to piddle on the floor.

No, no, you don't. You want your dog to know it's good to piddle outside. Because if our dog

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