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ARCHX Asher,- RL1X, RL2X,- RL3
Learning is- changing what we- do
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 | | Barked: Wed Jul 1, '09 1:14pm PST | |  | |  | | The questions remains un-answered: what do you do if you see what's going on and you want to avoid a potential escalation?
Well, in the moment, you employ management, which may include pulling the dog away. But that is not going to change the behavior.
But if you want to change the behavior, you turn to training.
If you use dominance as a model, then I guess you would make the dog eat last, walk behind you, keep the dog off the furniture, ignore the dog when you walk into the room. I'm not quite sure how any of these "dominance" oriented things will change dog aggression or reactivity.
If you use yank and crank methodolgy, you would issue corrections and punish the behavior till it ceased. Of course, you have no control over how the dog percieves the punishment and stand a chance of creating a dog that supresses the symptoms of aggression or reactivity until it is too late.
If you decide to use desensitization and classical conditioning, you would expose the dog in question to other dogs, constantly keeping the dog under threashold. Maybe at first you would just feed in order to classically condition a different response to the other dog and gradually move to reinforcing proper responses. You would train appropriate behaviors to take the place of the undesirable ones. This is what I would do, use classical and operant conditioning to train the behaviors I want.
How would YOU address it, Sheila?
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| | Barked: Wed Jul 1, '09 1:49pm PST | | | | | | Kaya, I think I understand..the fact that people havent the slightest clue about true leadership/dominance..monkey see, monkey do, all without doing their research to find out WHY and in WHAT situations certain exercises or methods are used.
Like laying a horse down..done by a professional, correctly, it is a useful tool on a particular type of horse..but done by a yahoo, incorrectly on the wrong type of horse..its not a training tool. | | | | |
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