Tag: Theory
DiscDog.Live Excerpt | Foundation & Avoiding the Simplicity Cliff
Triads in Dog Training
What Is a Duration Behavior?
Bitework Criteria with Prima
10 Strings to Pull to Manage Drive and Untie Behavioral Knots – Pt 2
The last two installments of this series outlined the behavioral strings and knots metaphor and examined 5 ‘strings’ of behavior and their relationship to behavioral…
10 Strings to Pull to Manage Drive and Untie Behavioral Knots – Pt 1
Yesterday’s piece was about how solving behavioral problems is kind of like untangling knots. Today I’m going to talk about the strings that make up…
Pulling Strings and Untying Behavioral Knots with Bitework
solving problems with bitework is like untying a knot. work on one strand or maybe a couple at a time and tug, loosen, and manipulate…
Go Do Dog Stuff: Seven Simple Ideas for Effective Dismissal
What Is Dismissal? Dismissal is the opposite of Attention. Practically speaking, it means that the handler is not available at this time. It does not…
Performance vs Understanding – Human Clicker Game
Performance vs Understanding – Context vs Concept
Performance is not Understanding
More lessons in this series: Human Clicker Game Context vs Concept Performance is not understanding. Just because a dog has done or is doing a behavior…
Four Qualities of Good Dog Trainers
Metaphor and Understanding in Dog Training
Success Vs Performance Requirements
Reframing Reinforcement: Overpaid and Under-Reinforced
Bite as Cookie
Anatomy of a Behavior
The Consequent Game
Marking with a Finger Point
One of the things we like to do at Pawsitive Vybe is to use a finger point to mark behaviors. The above video is a…