{"id":1513,"date":"2012-09-03T15:02:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T04:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2021-08-02T17:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:09:13","slug":"food-in-dog-training-dunbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/dog-behaviour\/dog-training-dog-behaviour\/food-in-dog-training-dunbar\/","title":{"rendered":"Food in Dog Training (Dunbar)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of the series in response to Dunbar’s 2012 Australian seminars. See\u00a0index<\/a>.<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

Food is very useful in dog training.<\/p>\n

My notes are a little brief in this section, but I think (!) that Dunbar described four principle roles of food in dog training:<\/p>\n

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Photograph copyright Ravyk Photography.<\/p><\/div>\n

1. Lure<\/span>
\nFood can be used to lure desirable behaviours.\u00a0 This is very effective for pet owners, who often do need food to make up for deficiencies in other areas (e.g. poor training, poor vocal control, etc).\u00a0 Read more about lure-reward training<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. Reward<\/span>
\nFood can be used to reward desirable behaviours.<\/p>\n

3. Classical conditioning
\n<\/span>Classical conditioning<\/a> is associating something good with something else.\u00a0 For example, feeding dogs every time they see another dog means that the dog is more likely to associate other dogs with good things.<\/p>\n

4. Distraction<\/span>
\nOtherwise known as \u2018proofing\u2019 in training, food can be used as a distraction in training exercises.<\/p>\n

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What if the dog doesn’t like food?<\/span><\/p>\n

If a dog doesn\u2019t like food, they should be trained to like food!\u00a0 Feed the dog by hand instead of from a bowl, or turn food into a secondary reinforce \u2013 \u201cyou have to eat the kibble for you do be allowed to do fun things\u201d. Food is too useful to not<\/em>\u00a0have in your toolbox for behaviour modification.<\/p>\n

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What you can use food for in dog training, and what to do if your dog doesn’t like food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[12,164,11,477,476,376,481,375,124,123],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-training-dog-behaviour","tag-dog","tag-dog-training","tag-dogs","tag-dr-dunbar","tag-dr-ian-dunbar","tag-dunbar","tag-food-rewards","tag-ian-dunbar","tag-rewarding","tag-rewards"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4970,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/4970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}