If your dog is not motivated to work for you or participate, it will be virtually impossible to train your dog.
Therefore, it is essential to understand the two types of Motivation: positive and negative.
Positive Motivation is anything that increases the likelihood of your dog repeating a behavior in the future.
Conversely, Negative Motivation is anything that your dog finds aversive, thus decreasing the likelihood of them repeating a behavior in the future.
Whether you realize it or not, you have likely used both positive and negative motivation on your dog.
If you want to have the most productive training sessions possible, it is essential to understand which of these three categories creates the most drive in your dog:
Food
Affection
Toys
Inside each category, there are endless specific motivators. Your dog will value each of these particular motivators inside of the categories differently. Once you have identified your dog's primary motivators, you can leverage them to optimize your training. As an example, my dog is more positively motivated by food than affection or toys. However, my dog also places much more value on a piece of steak than a piece of kibble. Therefore, I use food as my dog's primary reward but only use steak during sessions when I need my dog to be highly motivated. Conversely, I negatively Motivate my dog by using sharp verbal corrections.
It is imperative to figure out what is negatively (aversive) motivating to YOUR dog in specific.
Once you understand what your dog is positively and negatively motivated by, you can utilize proper timing to remove certain behaviors and increase others.
So, how well do you know your dog?
What are your dog's positive motivators, which is the biggest, which is the smallest?
What are your dog's negative motivators, which is the biggest and which is the smallest?
#dogtrainingtips #dogtrainingbasics #dogtraining101
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
Please watch: "I drove 20 hours to train this Goldendoodle! (vlog)"
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
I have a lab.
It’s FOOD FOOD FOOD AND FOOD lol
great video bro
I have a Bernese…food & lots of ❤
I love you videos natalie ,
i just have a question , at what age should i start training my puppy ?? and for how many minutes ?
All depends on dog. Each dog will have different attention span. You always want to stop before the dog wants to stop so the rewards dont lose value
As soon as you get the dog. If that’s 9 weeks, 8 weeks doesn’t matter. Start with small training sessions a few times a day. After these sessions play with you dog or let it nap whatever it wants to do. If you want , i guess a reality tv show of training a dog from as soon as you get home with the dog watch Zak George’s dog training revolution on YouTube. He has a series where he show how he trained his dog from day one. Their is a vid on the first 36 hours. If you don’t find that helpful then their are plenty of other videos. Also I would recommend the Pupford app.
Positive reinforcement ftw. Very well explained. Enjoying your videos
Thank you!
Hi, after watching few videos, I found your advices very helpful. Thank you for helping us.
I’m surprised that there are so little views, maybe you didn’t work enough on keywords associated to your videos. It’s very important when you want your videos to be suggested by YouTube search engine to associate your titles to many keywords that are searched
Natalie, your videos are so brilliant. You are truly amazing at what you do. Thank you from Tel Aviv, Israel.
Thank you very much!
Great videos! I just found you on YouTube so I’ve been binge watching your videos. Question..if I use a tennis ball (fetch) for motivation during training should I only bring out that toy during training sessions?
Whats the difference between a negative motivator and a punishment?