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Audio edition of the article A Closer Look At Self Rewarding Behaviour from the Life As A Human online magazine website. You can visit Life a a Human to find this and other articles.
Sometimes our dogs don’t want to do what we ask of them. Sometimes the rewards we offer them are not enough and they turn to “self-rewarding” behaviours. But are those behaviours really self-rewarding? It’s what our dog chooses to do so it must be. But what else is “self-rewarding” behaviour? The answer might surprise you.
Reinforcement and Rewards are not necessarily the same thing. As trainers, we owe it to our dogs to know when we’re trying to train something and when we’re just rewarding them for being our dogs. Both are important and both are in our control as trainers.
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