Archives for November 3, 2013

Motivational Dog Training – Criteria

My mentor, Jean Donaldson, taught me there are two parts to review when a dog is disinterested in training.  If it’s not motivation, then it’s criteria. What is criteria in dog training?  Criteria is the contract we have with the dog about the behavior he needs to perform to get the reinforcement. The level of difficulty of criteria increases as the dog matches his behavior to the current criteria we are looking for. For example, when teaching a down stay, {Read More}