06/03/2025
The question I was originally asked was, she’s so motivated by her food, of course she’ll do it when I have a pouch full of food, how will she do it when the food is out of the picture. The answer is A- the food is never completely out of the picture. And B- if we are rewarding the behaviors we like, instead of just bribing the dog to do it, we can eventually go to a variable reward schedule. If while she’s learning she gets rewarded 10 out of 10 times, eventually it will go down to 5 out of 10, and eventually we just reward every once in a while for things that she does well. Create anticipation. “Is this the time I get rewarded?!?”
