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non-food items as rewards
Paul Allen Pearce Vizla Training • Vizsla, Vizsla Training AAA AKC
The predatory motor pattern is the sequence of behaviour your dog progresses through when they are in the mood for hunting. The full predatory motor pattern looks like this; Orient > Creep >Stalk > Chase > Grab-Bite > Kill-Bite > Possess > Dissect > Consume
Simone Mueller, Charlotte Garner, Päivi Kokko, Clara Hilsberg, • Walking Together
multimotivators, such as a food/toy/praise combination.
Victoria Stilwell • Train Your Dog Positively: Understand Your Dog and Solve Common Behavior Problems Including Separation Anxiety, Excessive Barking, Aggression, Housetraining, Leash Pulling, and More!
Classical conditioning of emotions provides one example of evidence suggesting that reward-based training procedures should work better and establish a stronger bond between dog and trainer than punishment-based systems can.
Stanley Coren • Do Dogs Dream?: Nearly Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know

This is especially hard on working breeds, which are particularly likely to bark to relieve their boredom.
Victoria Stilwell • Train Your Dog Positively: Understand Your Dog and Solve Common Behavior Problems Including Separation Anxiety, Excessive Barking, Aggression, Housetraining, Leash Pulling, and More!
he’d play to his strength of listening and helping people apply their learning from the activity to everyday management challenges.
Gerri Brehm • Communicating with Style : A Handbook for DISCovering Yourself & Understanding Others
if you have a dog who is bred to run around in big circles to find prey, or to rummage in the bushes to flush birds, or to pull a sledge etc. they will automatically default to this genetically anchored behaviour in times of stress and high arousal.If