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Our dogs are going to make mistakes when we train. And we have a choice to make about how we respond to those errors. The fastest way to get the behaviour we want might also discourage our dog from wanting to learn anything else with us. How we tell our dogs they didn’t get it right matters.
With a little help from marine mammal trainers, there is an interesting way to get our dogs back on track without interrupting the flow of learning. The Least Reinforcing Stimulus or LRS can be just the thing to make the occasional error a non-event and keep your dog eager to learn what you are trying to teach!
A transcript of the main text of Helping Your Dog Get It Right is available at the Life As A Human online magazine website. You can visit Life as a Human to find this and other articles.
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