How to STOP Unwanted Dog Behaviors

alright guys this video is for those of you out there that have a dog or dogs that either pull on the leash or bark at people when you don't want them to and how do we stop that behavior first what we need to do is we need to think about what it is that the dog is trying to do or what is their outcome or result from doing a certain behavior so if I have a dog and that dog goes into a sit and I give that dog a piece of food that's going to encourage that dog to go back into the sit again but what about behaviors that we don't want now we have what's called self rewarding behaviors this is going to be a behavior that is rewarding the behavior itself is fun to do so whether or not you reward the dog and correct the dog for a self rewarding behavior since the behavior itself is fun they're going to continue to do that behavior unless we show them or tell them that they're not supposed to do it so again we want to think about the dog decides to do a behavior they do the behavior it results in some sort of outcome which determines whether or not that dog will do the behavior again so we need to look at it in that perspective if the dog does a behavior and it makes them feel good then they're more likely to repeat that behavior if a dog has fun chasing people or barking at other dogs that behavior itself feels good for the dog then they're going to continue that behavior this is no different than if you had kids and I told you I want you to get your kids to stop playing video games and this is how we're gonna do it we're going to we're gonna ignore them while they're playing games and the moment they stop playing games we're gonna give them money well that's not going to get them to stop the behavior of playing games because playing games is fun if you didn't want them to play games you'd have to create some sort of deterrent or you'd have to show them that playing games is not valuable or won't add any value to their life you have to do something in order to curb that behavior you can't just ignore it since it's a fun behavior so this is the same with dogs so you have to determine okay I don't want my dog barking at other people so we always want to remember that we have one second to influence a dog's behavior so one thing and to reward them or once again to correct them for behavior we want them to repeat or not to repeat and this is also why we use conditioned reinforcers or conditioned Corrections conditioned reinforcer predicts the primary reward which is food to our affection condition correct chin predicts the actual primary correction which could be anything that creates some sort of deterrent for the dog some people may have a container filled with coins that they shake the dog doesn't like the noise that becomes a deterrent or that becomes something that dog wants to avoid and if a certain behavior predicts that outcome the dog stops doing that behavior that predicts that outcome and it doesn't matter what it is as long as it works because remember we want to focus on the science of dog training so if for example let's say I'm using a leash pop my dog has a martingale collar on my dog doesn't behavior I don't like I say no and then I pop the leash given the dog a physical correction that's going to be positive punishment the dog doesn't like that correction so the dog stops the behavior but the dog's motivation to prevent the correction from happening must override the motivation to do the negative behavior this is no different from why if you think about why do most people choose not to rob the bank because the motivation not to go to jail overrides the motivation to make a quick buck but there are some people out there who would rather risk going to jail to make that quick buck so each dog is going to vary some dogs I might do a leash pop and that's going to get them to stop the behavior they don't want to do the behavior anymore because they don't want to be corrected but there's other dogs where that may not work so you have to be creative and figure out what it is that's going to get my dog to stop doing this behavior that is self reinforcing to the dog because again the behavior itself is fun and most the time when dogs are barking as long as that behavior is not based on fear so sometimes a dog will bark and it's because that behavior is based on fear if it's not based on fear then we can usually correct it out of the dog's repertoire but this is also very important to keep in mind you cannot correct fear-based behaviors out of a dog's repertoire this is very important because if a dog is doing something based on fear and we correct them at that point then what we are doing is we are reinforcing the fear we just said yeah you better be scared of that because you're gonna receive a correction for it and it's gonna make it even worse and it's gonna make it harder to fix well again you can correct behaviors out of a dog's repertoire that are not based on fear if my dog is chewing on the furniture my dog enjoys chewing on the furniture I say no and I give the dog leash pop and the dog says what I wasn't very pleasant I'm not going to chew on that furniture again it's no different than a dog biting a cactus if a dog thinks a cactus looks like it's a tasty treat and the dog goes and fights the cactus and they get pricked in the mouth they're not going to bite the cactus again they're going to learn from that so again think about what it is that the dog wants to do when they do the behavior what is the outcome of that behavior and you get to determine what that outcome is which will determine whether or not the dog repeats the behavior or chooses not to do the behavior again and this goes across the board so lastly if we are having a dog that is doing a certain issue that we want them to stop whether it's chasing other people chasing dogs we want to set them up to fail so I set dogs up for success so I can reward them the exact moment they do it right but I also set dogs up to fail so I can correct them at the exact moment they do it wrong I don't want to be surprised when my dog makes some sort of mistake I don't want to be like oh my gosh I can't believe my dog just broke the Sitz day I want to set it up so I'm ready the exact moment the dog makes a mistake if my dog for example barks when somebody knocks at the door but I don't want my dog to bark I'm not gonna wait till somebody randomly knocks on the door and it surprises me I'm going to have somebody who I know a friend or whatever come knock on the door so I'm ready and when my dog reacts to it I'm able to respond accordingly I set the dog up to fail so I can correct them the exact moment they make the mistake and give them a very clear path to success and lastly before I wrap this video up any time we are using any sort of correction on a dog that relates to obedience so we have behavioral issues and we have obedience issues behavioral issues are behavioral type issues it's for example digging chewing on furniture eating Christmas tree ornaments even now the trash can drinking on the toilet bowl those are going to be behavioral type issues and those who can correct day one as long as that behavior is not based on fear like we spoke about before now if I'm correcting a dog for obedience issues not sitting when I tell it to not downing when I tilt it down not coming to an called things like that are not staying in the sit stay I cannot correct them until a few things take place before that is but where that comes into play so what I mean by that is I want to make sure the dog knows the command that I'm asking them to perform so if I say sit my dog better no that's a sick command if I say down my dog better know that that means to lay down I better it's my responsibility is what I mean to teach my dog to sit in the down and there better not be any doubt in my mind that the dog actually knows those commands now once I have that in place I also want to make sure my dog knows how to turn off pressure by complying so if I put my dog in a sit-stay my dog breaks that sit stay and I say no I want my dog to sit back into that sit stay and there's ways to teach that which I explained in my online dog training program so if my dog goes back into the sit after it breaks a position when I say no that's showing me that that dog understands when I say sit to go into the sit position and when they break the position if I say no they know how to get back into that position showing me that they know how to turn off pressure by complying so when we do those steps we give the dog a clear path to success we teach them how to turn out pressure by compliant now it's fair to give the dog a correction for something that is related to obedience and if you do the steps properly even if you add a correction to your dog you're not going to get the negative add responses or the the bad reactions rather from my dog or from a dog that you have been using Corrections incorrectly if the dog doesn't know what's expected of them and they don't know how to turn out pressure you're gonna get that worried fearful looking dog and that's typical of somebody using any sort of Corrections on their dog incorrectly okay so all these things have to come into play and if you do this correctly it doesn't matter what the issue is you're going to be able to problem-solve and come up with a solution to be able to fix that again this is why I teach the science of dog training if you can understand the science you could think about each situation you could look at the dog and say what type of motivation does this dog need in order to perform the behavior what is this dog's bank account level that's an analogy that I like to use some dogs are very rich some are very poor the dogs that are more rich need a higher correction than the dogs that are poor so here's an analogy I like to use for that if you're speeding down the highway and a police officer pulls you over and writes you a 25 cent speeding ticket the moment they turn the corner off you go speeding again that 25 cent speeding ticket was not enough to get you to to change the behavior now let's take it on the their extreme end of the spectrum and he writes pulls you over and writes you a one hundred and fifty thousand dollar speeding ticket now you're gonna be stressed out you're gonna avoid the behavior completely that's an avoidance level correction that's a correction level so high you never want to do the behavior ever again but let's say he gives you a 250 dollar speeding ticket that's enough to get you to slow down without getting you to avoid the behavior of driving and again this is very important so now you have to figure out what is your dog's bank account how high or how low of a correction do you need to give your dog to get the proper response that you want based on the training that you are working on and again if you do these correctly you can get a phenomenal result if you want to learn more just check out my website Nate show more calm and it's gonna have all the information you will need as well as a free manual that you could download on my on my home page so again Nate show more calm to learn more thanks for watching [Music]

Channel: Nate Schoemer

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Length: 9min 53sec (593 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 08 2019