This is a positive training solution for teaching, reinforcing and inspiring real world manners in your dog. The techniques are designed to reward and motivate not only your dog, but you and whoever assists you. No matter how many human or canine members you have in your household, you can enjoy playing the games in each program and teach your dog how to live in your world at the same time.
Canine Game Theory™ is easy to teach to new clients, both the furry and the skin type. The learning curve is nearly non-existent. You just play games. But the thing with teaching something new is that it takes COURAGE! It takes the same courage that astronauts have, top athletes, innovators in all walks of life and the person who starts a corner café in the middle of a war torn country.
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Foundational skills are the fundamental, portable skills that are essential to conveying and receiving information that is critical to training and real world success. These skills are fundamental in that they serve as a basis—the foundation—for supporting additional behaviors/tasks and learning. They are portable because, rather than being task specific, they can be applied at some level across a wide variety of behaviors
Dogs who develop these skills have enhanced understanding of and are more responsive to the human world. Navigating the often confusing and inconsistent rules that humans create, knowing how to adapt instinctive and evolutionary behaviors to living with humans compatibly and working as a team with other animals in the home and the humans are all examples of using foundational skills.
The most interesting "games" that animals play involve making decisions based on predicting future environments. Animals may be equipped with either genetically coded information or they may learn, based on experience, how to predict environmental change. Examples of contexts in which prediction games may be played include decisions about whether to disperse or remain in a home range. Dispersal has its risks; an animal may not find an adequate new home or may put itself at increased risk for predation while moving. Staying put has its own risks, though. One factor that an animal may be able to predict is food supply. Based on weather, current food supply, and the density of competitors, a fairly accurate picture of future food supply may emerge. One strategy that might emerge from predicted future shortages of food is to encourage other animals to disperse by fighting with them. Another strategy is to for the animal to disperse, itself. Complex calculations of risk and potential benefit will determine the appropriate course of action. Many animals may not have the immediate ability to do these calculations, but many generations of evolution can shape behavior to respond in the correct way to a potentially bleak future.
The theory of human games applies to animal behavior. Game theory does not answer all of our questions about animal behavior, but it gives a solid framework in which we can understand the behavioral choices made by animals
An animal's choice of strategy may be based on genetic background (essentially, information gained by the action of natural selection on previous generations), experience, and/or an assessment of conditions. Natural selection provides a testing ground for strategies; computer simulations allow biologists to simulate the interaction of strategies. A strategy that cannot be dislodged by other strategies is called an "Evolutionarily Stable Strategy".
Learn this about your dog. They see and remember everything, especially during a traumatic experience. Learn to help a dog separate the trauma from the environment in much the same way you help a dog learn that sit means put the rear on the ground and doesn't include your favorite chair in the living room.
Enrichment
Husbandry
Environment
Socialization
Impulse Control
Engagement
Who can fathom the mind of a puppy? Squirrels drive them crazy, garbage is their favorite snack and immediately after chewing your one-of-a-kind, handmade leather jacket into confetti, they can give you a look of such innocent love and adoration that you forget all about it. This kind of behavior can baffle and frustrate even the most conscientious of dog owners. When you bring a puppy home, she becomes part of your family; you need to be able to trust her with your home, your belongings and even your children. Managing your puppy's behavior is the key to having a peaceful and loving relationship with her.
I, Micah, love going for a walk, exploring the wider world, sniffing around and checking out the
crazy animals that cross my path. My sisters (Brynda and Storm) also love these walks. We, especially Brynda, also love to run along beside the tricycle just moving our bodies and feeling the wind. Most of the time we really enjoy
getting out, but not when we see another dog being dragged along by its human or having to pull and pull to get anywhere. Why do these dogs do this? Why do the humans do this? What went wrong?
Dogs look to humans for direction, affection, and connection. If there are mixed signals and commands from owners and loved ones, it will be hard for your dog to understand where it is in relation to you. Communication is vital to insure a clear training message is being delivered to your dogs.
As part of that communication, there must be focus not only from the dog to the human, but from the human to the dog. You must see the dog, really see the dog, the one that is in front of you, not some preconceived notion of what a dog should be or the movie you keep playing in your head about a dog you had in the past.
Functional Training has been around for a long time in the human fitness world, in and out of favor. I remember when I was on the swim team in the 60's and how it seemed that every year something would change in the fundamental exercises we would do to improve our speed, strength and stroke. Many times it would fall out of favor to what appeared to be the smoother paved roads that promised faster and easier results. This deviation from the functional and the fundamental almost always led to an increase in injuries and failures.
There is no one definition of learning that is universally accepted by theorists, researchers and educators. Most learning theories have a formal method of study, analysis and conclusion. These methods help establish the forms of communication that influence both educational research and practice. However, all theories have limitations, as learning is complex.
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