Month: October 2019

The Importance of Marker Training. When training dogs, everything HAS to be black and white. There cannot be any gray area. Dogs learn best when there are strict guidelines as to what is right and what is wrong. In order to better help our dogs understand the difference between right and wrong, we use a … Read more Marker Training – Communicating with your dog!

Operant Conditioning in dog training. The term “operant conditioning” was coined by B.F Skinner because of his belief that classical conditioning, which we learned about last week, was far too simplistic to explain complex behaviors. According to Skinner, operant conditioning is a method of learning that occurs through a correlation of reward and/or punishment for … Read more Operant Conditioning in dog training