At the heart of this seminar is my desire to try to teach people something new....while shaping is certainly not a new concept, most pet owners don't give it much thought. They teach their dogs to sit, lie down, go to their bed, walk nicely on a leash, etc., but don't really think about *how* they are teaching their dogs to do these behaviors reliably. By shaping behaviors...rewarding successive approximations to your ultimate goal, you can actually get your pets to perform more complicated (and useful) tasks. For example, using shaping, you can get your dog to not just pick up a toy and bring it to you, but pick up that toy and put it away! Not just to jump up, but jump up and turn on a light switch (or turn it off) for you. Dogs with a basic foundation of behaviors can learn to string those behaviors together in a novel sequence, thus learning a brand new behavioral outcome which we can reward. They can go from picking up toys to picking up laundry and putting it in the washing machine. Are you intrigued? Join me...just visit www.adobedogs.org for class details and to sign up. Hope to see you there!
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