Episode 126: Rethinking Reinforcement (Maia Huff-Owen)

How can we make training our dogs easier? Most dog trainers know about functional assessments and the ABC’s of dog training, but DBC speaker, VSA Faculty Advisor and PhD in Philosophy Maia Huff-Owen shares a new way of considering the ‘C’ in ABC’s (consequences). Maia and Victoria discuss Maia’s upcoming Dog Behavior Conference topic, ‘After the Click: Completing the training picture’, as well as why using food in training is not tantamount to bribery, how training dogs is like a dance, and how even the most subtle actions can make a huge impact on our dogs’ behavior.