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Using Treats as Bribe - or as Reward

posted January 21, 2008 - 12:04am
Using Treats as Bribe - or as Reward

This articles discusses how many dog trainers use rewards as a bribe - and create some undesired side effects from this.
Many professional dog trainers do not accept that their students train with treats. Sometimes the reasons are just emotional and not founded in any rational reference to the training results you can achieve with treats. Other times, they refer to the unpleasant effect of the dog learning to only perform when the handler has a treat...
Despite the apparent disagreement among trainers, there really is only one possible way of training a dog to perform an action on a command given by a human. This fundamental principle lies behind all effective training...
http://k9joy.com/dogarticles/bribe.php



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