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071 What’s Really Going On in Your Dog’s Brain When Training Wobbles

Be Right Back! The Separation Anxiety Podcast

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Dog Training - How to Brain Your Dog's Brain

When certain brain cells communicate frequently enough, that connection gets stronger. Every single time your dog repeats that new association, you've just helped to strengthen that neural pathway. And i think a really helpful way to visualize this pathway is to play on the pathway that's created through learning and through association as a road in your brain. So an old pathway, an old pathway that's always been there. They're so automatic that what happens is they become like a super, super smooth highway. It gets the dog's brain from a to b quickly and efficiently with, you know, no bumps in the road. Why wouldn't you take the highway if you could? The thing with our dogs with separation

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