Kay Laurence - Learning About Dogs
Kay Laurence and Frances McCormack of "Learning About Dogs" launch the 5th Series following the questions raised from the first year with a new pup.
Explore the first four series with Kay and Sue McGuire, talking about the life we live with dogs. Both Kay and Sue have extensive experience of rearing, training and rehabilitation with dogs. Unique and insightful perspectives provide dog trainers and dog people a new way to learn about dogs.
Kay Laurence - Learning About Dogs
The Point of Learning or How to Get Peaches
What is the point of learning?
"When that brand new brain gets into motion it is going to have to find out how to secure the rewards needed for life, and once that is achieved set about finding the very best rewards, and lots of them. On a daily, minute by minute basis."
In this episode of the "Learning About Dogs," Sue McGuire and Kay Laurence of "Learning About Dogs," talk about how the mind-blowing experience of having a peak of the season peach from California cemented understanding of REWARD PREDICTION ERROR.
Season 3 of the "Learning about Dogs" podcast is about rewards and reward skill.
Article: Normal is Always Changing
Reward Skills Course
The more we explore and blend the theory, biology and application it is clear that this is not a simple process, it is complex and very sophisticated. With active minds open to learning we can continue to understand more, apply in an educated format and improve the combination of learning and dogs that we know and love and call training.