Mishka likes negative attention, so verbally correcting her is something that she enjoys. She hates being left out. In a true "errorless teaching" or 100% positive reinforcement, corrections aren't given. The negative behavior is ignored or redirected.

Huskyluv wrote:

We don't even need to do timeouts with my pack. Verbal corrections are all we need, they know from my tone and body language when they have done wrong. All I have to do is let out a stern "Hey!" or "No!" and walk toward any of my dogs and all three will roll over and show me their bellies. It truly amazes me every time. That's for all you who doubt positive reinforcement...I never alpha roll, do timeouts, or physically correct my dogs ever and look at the response I can get from a simple verbal correction!

This worked so well for our first husky. You should have seen us trying to train Sabaka like we trained Sandy! During one incidence of bad bahavior, both of us just stopped what we were doing and said, "This is crazy...obviously this is not working." Even now after he has been with us over 6 months, he still goes crazy if we raise our voices sternly to him at all. He must think he needs to "yell" back at us if we yell at him. So he barks and will eventually start jumping and plowing into us if we were to yell and come toward him. I just say calmly, "Okay, you have to go to time-out." He hangs his head and goes in the bathroom... He will actually sit in time-out for his full 5 minutes without fussing at all. I think he sees it as a "re-set"! Most always he comes out a different dog.

I wish the bathroom thing worked for time outs because I hate making her associate her crate with time out, but Ghost learned very quickly how to open doors and let herself out. The bathroom thing worked for about a week here...

SabakaMom wrote:

Huskyluv wrote:

We don't even need to do timeouts with my pack. Verbal corrections are all we need, they know from my tone and body language when they have done wrong. All I have to do is let out a stern "Hey!" or "No!" and walk toward any of my dogs and all three will roll over and show me their bellies. It truly amazes me every time. That's for all you who doubt positive reinforcement...I never alpha roll, do timeouts, or physically correct my dogs ever and look at the response I can get from a simple verbal correction!

This worked so well for our first husky. You should have seen us trying to train Sabaka like we trained Sandy! During one incidence of bad bahavior, both of us just stopped what we were doing and said, "This is crazy...obviously this is not working." Even now after he has been with us over 6 months, he still goes crazy if we raise our voices sternly to him at all. He must think he needs to "yell" back at us if we yell at him. So he barks and will eventually start jumping and plowing into us if we were to yell and come toward him. I just say calmly, "Okay, you have to go to time-out." He hangs his head and goes in the bathroom... He will actually sit in time-out for his full 5 minutes without fussing at all. I think he sees it as a "re-set"! Most always he comes out a different dog.

Trust me, it hasn't always worked for my dogs. It's taken YEARS of training and establishing a relationship to get to where we are now. There's no way I'd expect this to work on a puppy or even for it to work within the first year or two of having a sibe. Just saying that with time and patience it is possible for some.

arooroomom wrote:

Mishka likes negative attention, so verbally correcting her is something that she enjoys. She hates being left out. In a true "errorless teaching" or 100% positive reinforcement, corrections aren't given. The negative behavior is ignored or redirected.

I see your new job training is really paying off. You all already talking like a behavior therapist

Dee&Frankie wrote:

I see your new job training is really paying off. You all already talking like a behavior therapist

I've been practicing a lot of the trials and stuff with the dogs. Getting myself into a habit anyway of "Good sit" "Good waiting" as well as prompting and fading. It's so WEIRD how alike it all is!!