Archives for December 21, 2013

Behavior Chains in Dog Training

Here’s a fun, one-minute video of training bits of a behavior chain. What’s a behavior chain? It’s separately trained behaviors that when put together make a finished product. For example, teaching a dog to lie down, grab a blanket, hold the blanket, roll over, and cover himself. That’s a behavior chain: Many smaller behaviors that when connected, make one big, fluid behavior. The dogs and I train daily. They love training as much as I do. Here are those snippets {Read More}