Dog Aggression Management Audiobook
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desensitization desensitization means slowly and gradually introducing your pet to the thing that stresses and scares them. With desensitization, you need to start off at a very low level and very slowly build up. This isn't a process of a few days. This is a process of a few months at every step of the process. You need to make sure your dog is safe and happy. If, at any point you notice your dog displaying signs of stress or discomfort, even a tiny amount, you need to immediately stop and wait for the next session to try that level of exposure again. If you rush your dog and introduce their fears too fast, you risk making them more sensitive and scared. Achieving the opposite of what we want, for example, an issue my clients often have is their pet being terrified by fireworks. One way we may desensitize our pet to these sounds is by playing them at a low volume. If the dog reacts well and doesn't show any adverse reactions, you can reward them and then try increasing the volume a tiny bit the following day. Repeat this until the sound is being played at normal volume and your dog isn't showing signs of anxiety or stress. Assuming you don't rush the process and your dog is receptive to the training, it will learn to tolerate the noises which make them stressed. Counter conditioning. Counter conditioning is a form of dog conditioning that stems directly from Ivan Pavlov and his dogs. If you don't know about Pavlov, he was a Russian physiologist whose research is credited as being the foundation for the psychological school of behaviorism. Pavlov, in his experiments relating to digestion, noted that in the presence of the technician that fed them, his dogs would produce more saliva. He expanded upon this by isolating the stimuli. In his experiments. He knew that the dogs would always salivate more in the presence of food. This made the food the natural unconditioned stimulus. This meant the dogs needed no conditioning to react this way. Pavlov then presented the dogs with a metronome. This metronome meant nothing to the dogs. At first it was a neutral stimulus. Pavlov them presented the metronome and the food to the dogs at the same time. Over the course of multiple meals. Soon enough, the dogs would start to associate the introduction of the metronome. With food coming, this meant the metronome changed from a neutral stimulus to a conditioned stimulus, and the dog's reaction to the metronome became a conditioned response. He took something completely unrelated to food and conditioned the dogs into associating it with food whenever they saw it. The Pavel of Experiment Above describes classical conditioning. Counter conditioning differs in that we will take a negative stimulus example. Fireworks. And every time that stimulus frightens our dog, we will present them with a positive stimulus. Example. Food or a treat. The idea is that we take a bad thing and make it not bad by introducing something better to our dogs when it happens. Fireworks may be scary, but a piece of chicken is so nice that it takes their attention away from the fireworks. And so your dog will start to associate fireworks with chicken and therefore be less afraid when fireworks happen.