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I think as someone who is passionate about the science of behavior, what's amazing to me is how few people even recognize that there is a science of behavior or know that there is a science of behavior.
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So much of training over the last century has been about sort of dominating a dog and having a certain kind of energy and tuning into like your inner dogginess, which if you ask me is kind of all a bunch of malarkey. At the end of the day, Behavior is part of evolution.
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So I guess you could say my philosophy is is the science of behavior and behaviorism is both a science and a philosophy in that I think once we can understand the basics of what I think is a really interesting concept.
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area of science, we can do a lot to managing our dog's environment in order to get the behaviors we want, figuring out how we can reward the behaviors we want with appropriate reinforcers or rewards.
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We do things without even thinking about it that are of course manipulating the dog's environment. Putting the dog in a crate, right? We put a dog in a crate because a dog who's in a crate is a dog who is not going to pee on the carpet or chew on the coffee table.
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But even more than that, we can think in any given moment about how we can structure literally the room that the dog is in in order to encourage the chances that we're going to get the stuff we want and be less likely to get the stuff that we don't want.
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And when you're focusing on training using positive reinforcement, what you're really doing is trying to figure out how you can encourage behaviors you want. And part of that is trying to make sure that you're not getting a lot of the behaviors you don't want.
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The other problem with getting behaviors that you don't want is that those behaviors can then be positively reinforced without your meaning to.
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So if you create a situation, for instance, where you have a dog who jumps at everyone who comes inside in the door, if you create a situation where your dog gets to practice that behavior over and over and over of getting to bum rush whoever's coming in at the door, that behavior is most likely being reinforced.
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Because even if people are yelling at the dog, hey, get off me, I don't like that, the dog might still be interpreting it as attention. The dog still might be enjoying jumping up. So that's why you kind of want to create a path for your dog that they want to be on where there is like not a whole lot of chance that they're going to be engaging in the stuff that you don't want them to do.
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Yeah, you might suggest that your dog be in another room or tethered and give your dog a more appropriate thing to do. For instance, my dog, when people come in, I try and make sure that she is getting rewards in some place that is away from the door.
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Because what I want her to associate with someone coming in the door is good things happen all the way over there on the other side of the apartment when people come in. I like to encourage people to think about associations. What is the association that your dog is making at any given moment?
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How is your dog, you know, dogs, all of us, we're all connecting, you know, if this happens, then this happens all the time, all day long. So I use, for example, a little device, it's called a treat and train. It's a remote control treat dispenser that I keep on the far end of my apartment.
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And whenever anyone comes to the door, as soon as they ring the doorbell, I start triggering that at the other end of the apartment. And this is a way that I've manipulated the environment, created a situation in my home where I know exactly where the rewards are going to come out.
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I'm specific about where those rewards are coming out and I'm specific about delivering them in such a way that I know that as soon as she hears the doorbell, she is going to bolt to that other place because that reinforcement, the reinforcement of getting treats from from the machine is more valuable to her than the reward of like going to the door and jumping up on someone and getting that kind of attention.
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You know, I tend to think people get way too caught up in the why, especially coming when you're dealing with behavior with an animal that you're never going to be able to talk to about the origins of their feelings or their choices. I mean, it doesn't really matter why. When we're working with behavior, we're very much working from the outside in.
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You know, I'm not sitting my dog down on the couch and asking how she feels. you know, feels about the fact that I leave for work every day. I'm looking at the behavior that is being expressed and figuring out how I can change the behavior with things that I can control.
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It's an interesting problem. Like so many problems with dogs, when you think about it, like it really, the fault really is in the fact that we bred these animals to be our alarm systems for many, many, many thousands of years. And now we put them in situations where they are triggered to be our alarms. Like wolves, wolves are not big barkers. Like we've created animals that do this.
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And now we put them in situations where they're triggered.
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we don't want them to do it um certainly there's like a million reasons why dogs bark um so rather than addressing each one what i would say is it can be smart first of all like i said manage the environment figure out what's causing the what's causing the barking and how can you make those triggers less um pertinent sometimes the answer is as simple as uh like you know i work a lot with like city dogs um and who are triggered by like noises in the hallways
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All right. Thank you so much, Mike.
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Too often what I see happen is, you know, dog barks and then someone's like, Stella, stop it, stop it. And then the dog's barking and it's like, I think the dog is like, oh, I barked and then that got intention from her and now she's barking and now we're all barking together. It has like the wrong effect.