Ok, I’m going to pick up where I left off yesterday and move straight into a quick discussion of when we use punishment at the Austin Humane Shelter. As I’ve noted, we ideally avoid this but the examples I’m going to provide are relevant as a segue to some more general comments and wrapping this up by trying to look at a whole shedload of different stuff. It’s going to be long today, had I planned better I would have done this across multiple weeks or every day this week but that’s not going to happen for scheduling reasons. So…grab a drink and get ready.
The Role of Positive and Negative Punishment
Using approaches that revolve around reward methods work only when there is some behavior to reward in the first place. With dogs this usually isn’t too hard since they generally want approval and usually do stuff that you can reward to shape their behavior.… Keep Reading