#3 Actually, Ed, the only thing that teaches a dog is to fear you, unless you do it exactly as the dog is ABOUT to piss. And even then it's not the best approach to housetraining.
See, for instance, excellent books such as Karen Pryor's Don't Shoot the Dog or Jean Donaldson's Culture Clash for a good, scientific explanation of operant conditioning and how dogs really learn.
Now this is pretty pendantic on my part -- except for the fact that humans (who have reasoning powers dogs lack) do also learn from operant conditioning. If you want to give effective behavioral feedback it must come immediately AS the action is being performed -- and the subject must perceive the connection between their actions and the response.
Finally, the response must NOT come when they are NOT doing the action in question. |
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