05/20/2026
Clearly a little content here on dog training is tragically overdue..
This young labrador not here two weeks has already started his transition to the remote collar with an outstanding attitude.
The remote collar is being overlaid simultaneously using broken negative reinforcement, negative as he intake it away not negative as in bad, with a happy eager response to reward base marker training.
People clutching their pearls, oh, he's a "cookie trainer."
Yes nothing to it except:
Value, volume, pay schedule, marking, delivery, free shaping, luring, rewarding and fading.
Yeah, just cookie Training.
Not trying to reinforce recall here although he already grasps the concept, I'm just trying to create an association between a sensation and the command/command compliance.
I'm not trying to reinforce and I'm certainly not punishing.
Why trainers still insist on putting collars on dogs trying to reinforce or punish with the tool from day one subjecting the dog to a sensation it has no concept of.
Yeah, it works but I think it works in spite of that methodology not because of it.
Lots of dogs tolerate that old methodology but a lot of dogs hate it and people not knowing any different continue to use it and then just blame the dog for having a "bad Training attitude or being too soft."
It's an amazing system if you understand it and employ it correctly with dogs ending up transitioning to the collars in a manner that so much easier and more understandable for the dog than starting at higher levels of activation.
The idea that if you don't see a physical response from your dog when you press a button because they aren't feeling it so why would you try to train if you can't see they feel it?
That has to be the greatest mistake and foundational electric collar training doctrine ever!
Start at levels where you see no physical response and don't assume that just because you don't see a physical response the dog doesn't feel it. Gradually escalate intensity over at least a week until you, if you know how, can see the dog is starting to understand reinforcement with a collar.
Gradually add distractions taking into account individual sensitivity to sensation and sensitivity in arousal and you end up with what everybody wants, a happy dog that should have a behavior change and you habits so you aren't constantly banging your dog every training session managing behavior.
But yeah, I'm a cookie trainer.....
