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Help Humping, Barking, Destructive, Reactive Dogs Overcome Dysregulation: 4 Case Studies #220

Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett

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How to Train Your Dog to Be Self-Regulated

Good choices get good rewards. And we're giving high value reinforcement. Eventually I could not use the chin target. I could let this look at the dog and look at me. But I would never let a dog surprise her. So if I saw a dog in a distance, maybe she was facing this way and a dog was coming, I would always orient her towards the dog. That's what you can do when you make sure that your expectations are never higher than the training that you've put in with your dog. Don't believe the narratives of people saying he's being x, y, z.

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