This is the puppy training podcast episode 199,

How Dogs Learn Through Patterns and Repetition.

This podcast is designed to help you on your journey of becoming best friends through love and learning as you train your own dog from home.

And I'm here to help you every step of the way.

This is the puppy training podcast and I'm your host, Amy Jensen.

Hi everyone. Thank you for listening. Today we are talking about patterns of behavior, how dogs

learn in patterns and what that means for you, what that means for your dog, how it can help

us both. But first, can you believe this is episode 199? That means 200 is next and we are super

excited about it. So check in next week for our 200th episode. There might be a surprise involved.

Just going to say. My team and I have been brainstorming on how we can make this a special episode and thank all of you for being part of

the show. So stay tuned. Now let's talk patterns. Do dogs actually learn in patterns? Yes,

yes, they do. And you guys are getting really good at pointing out the patterns.

If you spend time in my program with me, I help you think of things that way. So your dog's doing a

behavior. I have you look at the pattern of the behavior. What happened before the behavior,

what's the actual behavior? What happened after the behavior? And then we start to analyze behavior,

right? Why the dog's doing it? What happens when they do it? Do they like that?

Do they not like that? These kinds of things. And what will they do in the future based off of

current behavior? So it's a fascinating topic to me. But dogs tend to respond to predictable sequences

because these routines provide them with clear expectations about what will happen next.

When a particular set of actions consistently leads to the same outcome,

dogs are likely to remember that and they respond to it.

So we call this process associative learning where dogs connect specific behaviors

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