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How Your Dog Learns (Add-On Course) 

Format: One 52min lesson • classroom only (no live demos)
Best paired with: The Perfect Walk, Picking The Right Tool

Benefits:

✅ Learn how to make yourself the most valuable thing in your dog's life.

✅ Understand why your dog does unwanted behaviors. 

✅ Learn how to stop your dog from doing an unwanted behavior.

✅ Why everything you've tried so far has not worked. 

What is this class?

The foundation behind every result you want. In 52 minutes you’ll get a clear, usable model of how dogs think and learn so you can shape behavior on purpose, not by accident. If you absorb this mindset, you can teach wanted behaviors, stop unwanted ones, and get your dog to do the right thing without being told.

What you’ll learn (pulled directly from the lesson)

✅ Value hierarchy (the “why” behind every choice).

✅ Dogs are physical, mostly non-verbal learners.

✅ Operant conditioning made practical (4 quadrants).

✅ The loop that runs your dog’s life: Stimulus → Behavior → Outcome.

✅ Instinct matters (stop humanizing).

✅ Commands vs. implied rules.

✅ Timing that actually works.

✅ Behavior change vs. emotion change.

✅ The seatbelt analogy (how society trains us).

You’ll walk away able to

✅ Make your dog’s bad choices less valuable and good choices more valuable—systematically.

✅ Decide when to punish (to stop an unwanted behavior) and when to reinforce (to build the replacement).

✅ Communicate mostly without words first, then attach cues that stick (say it once).

✅ Set clear, consistent outcomes so your dog stops testing and starts defaulting to the right thing.

✅ Turn rules like “no jumping/door dashing/pulling” into implied behavior—no nagging, no scripts.

What’s inside

✅ One 52-minute classroom session covering value theory, the four quadrants, the stimulus→behavior→outcome loop, timing, implied rules, and consistency. 

✅ Next steps guide: how to apply this in your current course (Walk, Boundaries, Obedience), plus where a tool correction is appropriate and when to pay the alternative.

Why add this to your cart

Every drill in your practical courses plugs into this framework. With the mindset from this lesson, your leash work, thresholds, recall, and house manners improve faster because you’ll stop fighting behaviors and start engineering outcomes.

Optional pairing: If you need help choosing fair, effective equipment for corrections and guidance, grab The Right Tool For Your Dog, it complements this class and speeds up implementation.