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What tips do you have for training your dog?
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Positive reinforcement of the behaviour you want to see is way way better than punishing behaviour you don't like. If you consistently redirect bad behaviours, and reward good ones, then you don't need to be around for the dog to choose the better behaviour.
Actually, when trying to prevent “extinction” (which is a behaviorist term for when a learned behavior stops happening), ie when trying to get a new behavior to stick, randomly inconsistent reinforcement prevents extinction better than consistent reinforcement.
Consistent reinforcement is ideal for initial learning of a task, but to make the behavior stick when you’re not around, or when you don’t have treats in your pocket, you want to start slowly taking the reinforcement away.
Basically you follow a decaying probability curve of reinforcement, where at the end you’re only giving a treat once every five or ten times they do the behavior.
In addition to this, building up a behavior by shaping is much more powerful that luring into the behavior or capturing it. Everything I've taught my dog by shaping she enthusiastically loves to do, to the point where it's hard to get her to stop. It's like solving a puzzle for them, so they associate the behavior with something fun.