Dr Dunbar's iWoofs Podcasts

Check out Dunbar Academy at https://www.dunbaracademy.com/ Join Dr. Ian Dunbar, Kelly Dunbar and Jamie Dunbar in the Vodcast version of the long running iWoofs Podcast. In this episode they discuss the impact the pandemic has had on puppies and puppy training.

We had more thoughts about food in training! Specifically, what constitutes a bribe? Food can be so useful for teaching dogs behaviors and motivating them to do those behaviors on cue, but we don’t want our dogs’ attention and compliance to become dependent on food lures or rewards, so how do we use food intelligently in training?

We started out with the intention of discussing all the most common dog training myths. But, as is so often the case, once we got started, we just couldn’t stop, and so this episode ended up being entirely about one of the most common myths in dog training: the myth of intent. Too often, dog owners and trainers get too hung up on why a dog did something, usually blaming the dog for being spiteful, malicious, stubborn, etc. In the end, we’ll never know why dog’s do things, but that shouldn’t stop us from training!