Comments on: “Instead Of Thinking” – Dealing With Unwanted Behavior http://www.ohbehave-dogtraining.com/instead-of-thinking-dealing-with-unwanted-behavior Training dogs the positive way Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:54:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jaqi Bunn http://www.ohbehave-dogtraining.com/instead-of-thinking-dealing-with-unwanted-behavior/comment-page-1#comment-111 Jaqi Bunn Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:05:21 +0000 http://www.ohbehave-dogtraining.com/?p=780#comment-111 Makes perfect sense to us, doesn't it? However pet owners need advice like this to keep it simple. Love this article and very happy to link to it! Makes perfect sense to us, doesn’t it? However pet owners need advice like this to keep it simple. Love this article and very happy to link to it!

]]> By: Kevin Myers http://www.ohbehave-dogtraining.com/instead-of-thinking-dealing-with-unwanted-behavior/comment-page-1#comment-106 Kevin Myers Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:25:27 +0000 http://www.ohbehave-dogtraining.com/?p=780#comment-106 Excellent post! It is such a common sense approach when you think about it. Teach what you want, don't yell about what you don't. Behaviors that are reinforced repeat themselves, those that are not reinforced dissappear. Kevin Excellent post!

It is such a common sense approach when you think about it. Teach what you want, don’t yell about what you don’t. Behaviors that are reinforced repeat themselves, those that are not reinforced dissappear.

Kevin

]]> By: Mary H. http://www.ohbehave-dogtraining.com/instead-of-thinking-dealing-with-unwanted-behavior/comment-page-1#comment-105 Mary H. Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:56:52 +0000 http://www.ohbehave-dogtraining.com/?p=780#comment-105 Great post! It's so much more helpful to look at the positives and what we want the dog to be doing. This is why punishment is often ineffective---even if we stop the unwanted behavior, another unwanted behavior often takes it's place since the dog still doesn't know what is acceptable. Mary Great post!

It’s so much more helpful to look at the positives and what we want the dog to be doing.

This is why punishment is often ineffective—even if we stop the unwanted behavior, another unwanted behavior often takes it’s place since the dog still doesn’t know what is acceptable.

Mary

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