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Behavior Training Basics
After your dog understands the basic obedience commands, you are ready to
begin more specific behavior training. All of the general and obedience training
basics also apply to behavior training.
General “Avoidance” Training
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“Avoidance training” is teaching your dog to associate the training signal
with the problem behavior and helping him learn that in order to avoid the
signal he must stop the behavior.
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The use of a verbal command and/or audible/vibration signal varies with the
situation and the training method. In some situations (such as digging or
jumping up), you may want your dog to associate the behavior only with a
training correction with no verbal command or audible/vibration warning. In
other situations (such as general obedience), a verbal command and/or
audible/vibation warning before the correction is appropriate.
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When correcting your dog’s behavior, you must take into consideration that
not all activities, such as barking, should be eliminated completely
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goal of your training should be to control problem behavior rather than to
eliminate normal and acceptable aspects of the same behavior.
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Remember that your dog will not automatically understand what to do when
he receives a signal from the remote trainer.
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Do not comfort your dog after sending a training signal.
This Owner’s Guide provides only
general training examples
for common
behaviors. Advice and assistance from a professional dog trainer familiar with
remote trainers may also be helpful.
