How the Best Professional Dog Trainers Use Reinforcement #94

Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett

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🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

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Have you ever watched a really well-trained dog, like a police dog, world champion agility dog, or service dog, and noticed that they seem to be working without getting any food or toy reward from their handler? You might have tried the same with your dog, but your dog said, “no reward, no thanks!”. We’re looking at why some dogs appear to work brilliantly with no reinforcement.

In the episode you'll hear:

• The confusion out there about how reinforcement works.
• How elite dog trainers use reinforcement.
• Why the work can become massively valuable for dogs.
• About stacking reinforcement.
• The 5 categories of reinforcement that I use.
• How attention can be a reward.
• About the obvious reinforcers like food or toys.
• Why the cues your dog knows can be powerful reinforcers.
• How activities can be reinforcing.
• Why rewarding activities need to have permission.
• What a transactional relationship is and how it relates to dogs.
• Why we want a partnership with our dogs.
• The inadvertent reinforcement you might be giving your dog.
• How all dogs have a hierarchy of reinforcement.
• Why a partnership with us becomes intrinsically reinforcing for dogs.

Resources:

• YouTube Video with Susan Garrett and Steve White (Two Dog Training Experts 70+ Years of Experience Talk Reinforcement) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azaRcHN2CUQ
• Podcast Episode 16: The Thing Before Your Dog’s Thing - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/16/
• Podcast Episode 80: Does Your Dog Love You? Let’s Talk Relationships - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/80/
• Podcast Episode 11: The Power of Permission in Dog Training - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/11/
• Podcast Episode 2: Reinforcement - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/2/
• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/jwZyBAYe6FY

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0:00.0	Have you ever watched a really well-trained dog, like a police dog, a high-level world champion agility dog, a service dog, that they seem to be working without getting any kind of food or toy
0:23.6	reward from their handler. And especially if this is something that you've tried on your own and your
0:30.5	dog says, no thank you. I'm opting out. Well, if you have, you are going to love today's podcast.
0:37.9	Hi, I'm Susan Garrett.
0:39.0	Welcome to Shape by Dog.
0:40.8	Today, I'm going to be talking about that mystery, that why it seems that some of the elite
0:47.8	dogs work so brilliantly and it doesn't look like they're getting reinforcement.
0:56.6	The mystery is solved. This is going to be critically important to those of you who just have a new puppy or a new rescue dog, of course.
1:01.8	It's going to be critically important for those of you that are struggling with some challenge
1:05.9	with your own dog that you just can't seem to fix. And I really want all of you who have been taught that you
1:14.9	should be using food lures or toy lures to create behavior with your dog. I would like all of you
1:21.7	to pay particular attention to today's podcast. I think this is going to be a pivotal podcast for many people.
1:30.3	And let me tell you how it came about. Recently, I put up a post on social media where I shared
1:35.7	that it isn't the food rewards that the best dog trainers in the world use that make them
1:41.6	so great. It's how they use their food rewards. And there was a number of
1:47.3	comments from people who said, well, the best dog trainers in the world shouldn't use food. Like the
1:51.8	best dog trainers in the world don't use food or toys. And I recognize for the most part,
1:56.6	these were just trolls that were, you know, looking to try and stir some action. But what
2:01.6	concerned me was that some of these posts actually got 30 or 50 people giving them a like or
2:07.9	a thumbs up. And I thought, wow, there is some confusion here in how reinforcement is used.
2:15.2	Because let me tell you, all reinforcement trainers are not the same.
2:20.7	All reinforcement-based trainers do not use food in the same way. I'm going to share how
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