Dog training teaches us that thinking outside the box must be done at the appropriate time to be most effective. Most of my best ideas about dog training came for outside the dog training industry. When I was young those ideas came for people who were doing behavior therapy with people. Incorporating reinforcement theory and interesting application from a clinical human setting to dog training was, at that time unorthodox. Now the majority of dog trainers consider training with the principals of operant conditioning and positive reinforcement standard practice. So what used to be an unorthodox style of training has over time become the orthodox training style. Continue reading →