Fully agree—if the dog were only trying to get biscuits, it wouldn’t continue to sit later on in it’s life when you are no longer rewarding that behavior.Training dogs is actually some mix of the dog consciously expecting a biscuit, and raw updating on the actions previously taken.
Hear sit → Get biscuit → feel good becomes Hear sit → Feel good → get biscuit → feel good becomes Hear sit → feel good At which point the dog likes sitting, it even reinforces itself, you can stop giving biscuits and start training something else
Yeah. I do think there’s also the aspect that dogs like being obedient to their humans, and so after it has first learned the habit, there continues to be a reward simply from being obedient, even after the biscuit gets taken away.
Fully agree—if the dog were only trying to get biscuits, it wouldn’t continue to sit later on in it’s life when you are no longer rewarding that behavior.Training dogs is actually some mix of the dog consciously expecting a biscuit, and raw updating on the actions previously taken.
Hear sit → Get biscuit → feel good
becomes
Hear sit → Feel good → get biscuit → feel good
becomes
Hear sit → feel good
At which point the dog likes sitting, it even reinforces itself, you can stop giving biscuits and start training something else
Yeah. I do think there’s also the aspect that dogs like being obedient to their humans, and so after it has first learned the habit, there continues to be a reward simply from being obedient, even after the biscuit gets taken away.