Released on = December 20, 2005, 9:39 pm

Press Release Author = Jonathan Cheong

Industry = Small Business

Press Release Summary = It makes a great deal of sense to get the dog to perform the
desired behavior without any physical intervention on the part of the handler.
Getting the dog to perform a behavior without being touched is important...

Press Release Body = Reward training is often seen as the most modern method of
training a dog, but reward training is probably much older than other methods of dog
training. It is possible that reward training for dogs has been around as long as
there have been dogs to train. Early humans probably used some informal kind of
reward training when taming the wolf pups that eventually evolved into modern dogs.



Many principles of modern reward training date back many decades. However, what is
called reward training today has only enjoyed is remarkable popularity for the past
10 or 15 years.



Many reward training enthusiasts are less enthusiastic about other methods of dog
training, such as the traditional leash and collar method. However, the best
approach to training any individual dog is often a combination of leash/collar
training and reward training.



In addition, a training method that works perfectly for one dog may be totally
inappropriate for another, and vice versa. Some dogs respond wonderfully to reward
training and not at all to leash and collar training, while others respond to
leash/collar training and are not at all motivated by reward training. Most dogs
fall somewhere in the middle of these two extremes.



Clicker training is one of the most popular forms of reward training these days.
While clicker training is not the answer for every dog, it can be a remarkably
effective method of training many dogs. In clicker training, the dog is taught to
associate a clicking sound with a reward, like a treat. The trainer clicks the
clicker when the dog does something good, followed immediately by a treat.
Eventually, the dog learns to respond to the clicker alone.



Most reward training uses some sort of food reward, or a reward that is associated
with getting food. In most cases, complex behaviors can only be taught using this
kind of positive reinforcement, and you will find that the people who train dogs for
movies and television use reward training almost exclusively.

(To Be Continued...)


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