This is the puppy training podcast episode number 35, a bribe or a payment.

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. Hey everyone, how's it

going? Welcome to the podcast today. I'm super excited to be here with you. This episode is a key

in dog training and something that we all need to understand.

So I'm super excited to share it with you today.

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about the topic of the day, a bribe or a payment. Oftentimes in dog training, we use a method

called loring to teach our dog new behaviors. I like loring as a

method because it's a very fast way to get our dog to do something that we want. We're going to talk a

little bit more about that in just a minute. But today specifically, this podcast is going to help

you move from using a food reward or other reward as a bribe or a lure to get your dog

to do something. And we want to quickly transition that over to payment or a reward. We don't want to

continually be luring our dog or bribing our dog to do things. Sometimes you'll hear people say,

my dog will only do something if I have food. Or more specifically,

if he knows I have food, he'll listen. But if I don't have any food on me, my dog doesn't listen to me.

So sometimes people steer away from using food and dog training. But here's why I like to use it.

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