I use shaping rather than luring with food in my dog training. In the 80s, I was taught to food lure and correct, learned to do it well, and luring brought me a lot of success in obedience and agility. Luring can have benefits, but I decided to change. When I say I don't lure, it always gets a lot of comments and questions on social media, so in this episode, I'm covering the top ten reasons I prefer shaping.

In the episode you'll hear:
• The advantages of luring, how it can be easy to teach people, and its popularity.
• What I heard from my mentors Bob and Marian Bailey about luring.
• How my dog Shelby gave me my first “ah ha” about luring.
• About a class I took at University and what I learned about backwards conditioning.
• A review of Pavlov’s experiment with bells, food, and dogs.
• What happens in dog agility and other sports with luring and dogs who love to chase.
• How luring can turn into bribing the dog, and that dopamine kicks in at choice points.
• What I noticed about motivation and treat bags when I was teaching dog trainers in Japan.
• About pattern training and its relation to luring dogs.
• How the value dogs have for the food can override everything.
• The reason to know what you are reinforcing when your dog sees the cookie.
• That shaping gives us layers to create complex behaviors.
• Why I think shaping can become part of our whole life.

Resources:
1. Podcast Episode 171: Dog Training With Layered Shaping: Why Classical Conditioning Must Come First    • Dog Training With Layered Shaping: Wh...  
2. Podcast Episode 174: Dopamine In Dog Training: Anticipation, Rewards, And The Transfer Of Value    • Dopamine In Dog Training: Anticipatio...  
3. Podcast Episode 145: 10 Ways To Teach A Dog To Lay Down And How To Shape It Without Luring    • 10 Ways To Teach A Dog To Lay Down An...  
4. Podcast Episode 173: Target Training For Dogs: How, Why, And When To Fade Targets    • Target Training For Dogs: How, Why, A...  
5. Podcast Episode 172: How To Teach Your Dog Anything With My Training Plan    • How To Teach Your Dog Anything With M...  

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Timestamps:
00:00 Why I Choose Not to Use Luring (Even After Great Success)
01:33 Benefits of Training with Lures
04:30 What My Dog Shelby Showed Me About Luring
05:42 University, Backwards Conditioning and Pavlov Review
07:52 Luring vs Shaping in Dog Agility and Dog Sports
09:54 How Luring Equals Bribery and Behavior Becomes a Negotiation
10:45 Why Shaping Releases Dopamine at Choice Points
11:45 Observations About Luring When Teaching Dog Trainers in Japan
12:48 Luring and Pattern Training
14:14 How a Dog’s Value for the Food Overrides Everything
18:15 What Are You Reinforcing?
20:10 Training Complex Behaviors
20:56 What You Learn First You Learn Best
23:00 Solution Based Dog Training and Daily Life


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Susan Garrett’s interest in animal behaviour started at the University of Guelph where she earned a Bachelor of Science majoring in Animal Science. Since then she has developed into a preeminent dog trainer and canine sports instructor and competitor. Susan is one of the most successful agility competitors of the last three decades. She has won multiple Gold Medals at National or World Championship events with every dog she has ever owned over the past 30 years.

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