In the big picture of dog training, how important is it to be consistent really?

I mean, if you don't want to have behaviors like on the scale that my dogs are, do you really need to be that consistent?

That is the topic of today's podcast. Welcome to Shape by Dog. I'm Susan Garrett.

And today's podcast was inspired by a letter that we received and it goes like this.

Susan, will positive reinforcement training work when there isn't much consistency

between my husband and myself? He says that I'm a control freak. This is similar to the

letter that we was the topic of podcast episode number 49. But I am going to bring up some new

points. But you might want to check out that one as well. Back to

the letter. He says that I'm a control freak because I want the dogs to sit at the door before I let

them go out. He opens the door and just lets them bolt. I basically stopped trying to do any

training because it seems everything I do, he undoes. I have three dogs. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you.

So, let's take a look at this thing called consistency and why do we even care if our dog sits at

the door? And are we being kind of control freaks? We get a lot of questions to unpack here.

Let's start by reminding you

the two big ways, there's all kinds of ways, but two big ways of training dogs. And there's

training a dog to move away from something that is punishment. There's training dogs to move

towards something that would be something they

like as in reinforcement. And there's people who use a mixture of those things. And today's podcast is not

to debate which is right or wrong. Anyway, it's what's right or wrong for you and where you are

on your journey with dogs. But that's for another discussion. Those of us who are choosing to train our dogs with reinforcement, wanting them to move

towards something, there's really two different divisions here. So, there's the world of luring

where, of course, the dogs are going to move towards it, but it's kind of like a,

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