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The
best reward for a dog is the one
which works for any particular owner and their dog. The one which achieves the
result that the owner desires and the one that the dog considers worth
performing for. Positive rewards such as food, cuddles, favourite toys, games or verbal will work in many applications either separately or in combination and any or all can be considered the best if they give the owner what he considers to be the best result. There
are of course negative rewards such as reacting to an undesirable manner by
shouting, looking at, glaring at, smacking, pushing or other body contact in
order to stop him
behaving in an undesirable way. These are considered by the dog as reward simply
because they are responding to him. The
opposite to reward is not punishment, it is no reward. No reward is ignoring an undesirable action, one of my lads Robbie who was deaf, liked to go in the lake but he would wait for his hand signal and command for GO! if I did not do it quickly enough for him he would bark at me, while he is barking I would turn my back on him, consequently he will not get the signal, when he stopped barking I would turn around and signal for him so he can GO! If he was very noisy and continued to bark then I would turn my back on him and walk away, that way he did not get to go in the water at all. |
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