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How Dogs Learn
• Dogs learn in one of two ways: They learn by  
associating an emotion with an experience. An  
experience can be positive, negative or neutral, 
 and this emotional effect predicts how well  
they react to that same experience next time  
around.
• Dogs also learn through their actions getting 
 reinforced. Reinforcement can be either  
positive (he is rewarded) or negative (he is  
punished)
• Very much like children, huh? Except for one  
key difference: Dogs live in the “now”, so  
actions need to be reinforced immediately  
(within seconds) after they happen. So be  
careful about what reinforcement you apply,  
and when.
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Dog & Cat Talk: Knowing canine body
language is cruci al
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Dogs Need to Chew
•Dogs need to chew and if you don’t provide  
appropriate and enticing options for your dog, it 
 will find something else to chew on.
•By putting away items you don’t want your dog to  
chew and supervising and re-directing  
inappropriate chewing to the options you’ve  
provided, you can effectively fixate your dog on its  
own chew toys and save yourself a lot of damage  
and frustration.
•By providing your dog with its own toy box, your 
 dog will know where to go when it wants  
something to chew.
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Dogs Need Socialization
•A dog that’s not thoroughly socialized before  
sixteen weeks of age is more likely to experience a 
 fear reaction to anything new after the  
socialization period is over.
• Socialization means exposing your dog to  
everything it may come in contact with throughout 
 its life before its brain is fully developed, which  
occurs at around sixteen weeks of age.
• This includes, but is not limited to: adults, children, 
 men and women of different sizes, shapes and  
colors, different sizes, breeds and colors of friendly  
and healthy dogs, accessories, glasses, beards,  
canes, wheel chairs, sights, sounds, smells, new  
environments, etc.
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Aggression Prevention
• Assertive Challenges – Resource Control
• Ignore Demands – If you don’t follow, your dog can’t lead.
• Everything must be Earned – Control the resources by requiring 
 your dog to earn everything of value.
• “Leave It”
Your dog learns to happily remove itself from whatever it’s 
focused on
when it hears the “leave it” cue preventing possessive aggression.
• “Drop It” and “Take It”
Your dog learns to happily drop any item on cue preventing 
possessive
aggression.
• Putting special treats in your dog’s food bowl while it’s eating
• Putting special treats in your dog’s food bowl while it’s eating  
teaches your dog that people approaching its food bowl are giving 
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instead of out of its food bowl, preventing food bowl aggression.
Fear Aggression
•Socialization – If your dog likes new dogs and 
 people, it’s unlikely to bite them.
•Protect your Dog – Protect your dog from those 
 who may tease, frighten or hurt it.
•Handling Exercises – Teach your dog to enjoy being 
 handled.
•Positive Reinforcement Training – Positive
reinforcement training prevents punishment that 
 causes fear, stress, anxiety and aggression.
Remember, every canine-behaviour, no matter how  
annoying, is normal and natural!
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Training Treats
•Training treats are a temporary training tool to be used properly then put  
away. Remember, any tool is only as good as the person using it.
•We’ll use treats to create and polish behaviours and put behaviours on  
cue, then fade the training treats away replacing them with other valued 
 rewards such as attention, praise, walks, car rides, games, etc.
Use properly, food rewards, also called training treats, serve the following  
purposes:
• to motivate your dog to think and make choices
• to lure your dog’s body preventing the need for physical manipulation
• to reinforce the desired behaviour making it more likely your dog will 
 repeat the behaviour and understand the meaning of the cue
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•Once your dog understands each cue and signal we’ll take
the following steps to fade the treats/rewards;
1. First we’ll begin by asking for more responses for each 
 treat reward, requiring the dog to work harder for its  
rewards. We’ll reinforce the behaviour intermittently  
meaning the dog knows the treat is coming – it just  
doesn’t know when. The dog keeps offering the  
behaviour in anticipation of the eventual reward. Like
the slot machine, the secret to rewarding intermittently 
 is to only reward the dog often enough to keep it  
playing your game.
2. Next, we’ll remove the treats from our body so our 
 dog’s response doesn’t depend on the presence of 
 food.
3. Then we’ll gradually replace the food with other real  
life rewards that are valuable to your dog, things it will 
 receive daily anyway such as meals, walks, car rides,  
games, toys, safe bones, cuddle time, attention, off  
leash play and play with doggy friends.
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