Focus on Behaviors

My February Theme of the Month is Focus on Behaviors!

February being the month of LOVE, we are going to talk about how to get your dogs to do the behaviors you love more often as well as talk about ways for you to love your dogs!  And since we really only have 3.5 weeks this month, I'm going to divide this theme into 3 basic categories:

• Understanding K-9 emotions and how emotions can effect your dog's behaviors.
• Providing enrichment based love to all of your dog's daily needs.
• How to get the most out of your reinforcement value towards behaviors you LOVE.

Here is a list of the blogs in this series with more being added throughout the month.

Post 1:  Introduction to Focus on Behaviors

Post 2:  Understanding K-9 emotions and how emotions can effect your dog's behaviors.

This post explains how our dog's emotions and excitement level effect the behaviors they give us.

Post 3: Mapping Emotions with Core Effect Space

This post explains Core Effect Space in simple terms that any dog owner can use to better understand their dog.

Post 4: February Love: Making Human - Dog Connections

This is a fun video conversation between myself and fellow Dog Trainer, Cindy Campbell about how we can better connect with our dogs to show them how much we love them.

How you can better meet your dog's needs with enrichment activities.

Post 5:  Understanding your dog's needs.

Post 6:  What is enrichment for your dog?

Post 7:  How can you fit enrichment activities into your daily schedule.

Post 8:  How can we use enrichment to get the behaviors we love?

            

Special guest, Jazer shares a video with us about an enrichment activity his owner provided to help manage his puppy needs.  Thank You, Patti for permission to repost your video!

Information about reinforcement!

Post 9:  What is reinforcement & what is self-reinforcement?

Post 10:  How to determine what your dog finds reinforcing.

Post 11:  Learning how to use different types of reinforcement in training sessions.

Post 12:  Tips for avoiding unconscious reinforcement and  self reinforcing of the wrong behaviors.

February: Focus on Behaviors Bonus Videos

Susan Garret's Dogs That Podcast #42

Working Paws: Trainer Talk #1 Do Words Matter

Working Paws: Trainer Talk #2 Cooperative Care

2023 Blogs on February: Focus Around Behaviors

Understanding Off Leash Training and Why Safety is Essential!

Having Conversations with Your Dog: Conversation Starters!

Most of the rest of the February posts highlighted the new Yooper Paws Training Center and giving info about classes and workshops as they were planned. You can find those posts easy enough in the Archive List in the far right column.

2024 Blogs on February: Focus Around Behaviors

Understanding Routines with special note on creating a Relaxation Routine.

Making New Friends with a special edition of Azul TV!

Clear Communication with a exert from the Building a Better Bond Workshop.

Special SD Handler Chat with Matt Beisner discussing "What DO You Want Your Dog to DO?"