{"id":2388,"date":"2020-05-29T14:51:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T21:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:56:19","slug":"do-i-always-have-to-use-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lela.greendogpetsupply.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/29\/do-i-always-have-to-use-treats\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Always Have To Use Treats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2390\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2390\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2982-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Heather Ohmart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong> (Foundational Thinking For Creating Good Behavior In Dogs Part<\/strong> <strong>Three)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>A lot of people worry about training with treats.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">* Do I have to keep giving them treats for everything for the rest of their\u00a0 lives? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">* Aren\u2019t I bribing them? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">* I want them to do things because they want to please me. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">* I want them to do things right away and I don\u2019t want to have to show them a treat to get them to listen.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>These are all good questions.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #e38b20;\">Tiny high value treats are a great way to teach new behaviors to any animal.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>Learning something new can be challenging for all of us, and for dogs it can be both physically and mentally challenging. It can also be emotionally challenging for them when working on behaviors that will help them combat the discomfort or outright fears they might have about strangers or dogs or loud noises, etc. Yummy treats can make those more difficult things easier, and the fact that they\u2019re sprinkled though the activity fairly regularly and appear when they do the best job can be very motivating to try harder to make that good thing happen. Please read more about the value and science behind positive reinforcement training and how dogs learn, and the dangers and outright misinformation surrounding dominance based training in our last blog post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/blog\/to-treat-or-not-to-treat\/\" target=\"_blank\">To Treat or Not to Treat <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>The greatest benefit to using treats when teaching a new behavior is how quickly you can teach something new if you\u2019re using them, as the dog is usually trying to figure out how to get those neat treats, and may stay in the game longer before she gets frustrated.<\/strong> By quickly rewarding small advances towards your end goal, she can get the picture of what you\u2019re after and get there faster. This is helpful to you, the trainer, and also helpful to your relationship. If you\u2019re asking her for a new behavior she\u2019s never heard of before, don\u2019t forget that you have to show her what you want her to do. It seems like an obvious statement, but they really don\u2019t speak English right away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Picture this: If your boss (who maybe has a bit of a short fuse, so you\u2019re already a little anxious about doing the wrong thing) says in a demanding voice, \u201cZowzy!\u201d And points at the wall, you\u2019re not going to know what the right answer is to that request. There are certainly a lot of wrong answers and likely only one right one, and if you tried one of the wrong ones (maybe you just looked at the wall, or went over to the wall and looked at a framed picture) and he seemed to be upset by that and he says \u201cZowzy!\u201d even louder, your anxiety level might climb. It just wouldn\u2019t be an efficient way for you to figure out what he wants, and you probably won\u2019t enjoy figuring it out. <strong>Repeating a word they don\u2019t know in a louder voice certainly won\u2019t make them know what to do.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">With treats, we can \u201clure\u201d them towards the behavior we want, in order to establish what you\u2019re after, and don\u2019t worry &#8211; we can then phase out the lure. Small treats allow you to be able to get a lot of voluntary repetitions of the new behavior quickly, keeping the dog engaged and therefore learning what it is you want.\u2028 So the scenario of teaching a dog to sit might go like this: <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2389\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DSC01401-copy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>the dog is standing and you put a treat right up to her nose (even touching her right under her nose with it, and move it up and back slowly so she\u2019s following it. This makes her head point up towards the ceiling, and she might start to sit \u201cby accident\u201d because she\u2019s following that treat. When her butt touches the floor, say \u201cyes!\u201d right at that moment and give her the treat and praise her. Do it a few more times the same way. Now it might be getting faster, as she\u2019s starting to realize that when she gets into that position, she gets a treat. Now you can start saying the word \u201csit\u201d right when you bring the treat to her nose. After a few repetitions, she\u2019s going to start to build an association with the sound of the word sit, that it <em>predicts<\/em> that you\u2019re going to be doing the thing where her butt touches the ground. End the session on a high note.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Next you\u2019ll want to start the process of phasing out the lure, but we want her to have a solid sit before we eliminate it altogether. Here\u2019s how:<\/strong> In the next session, repeat what you did before a few times. Your next step will be to hide the treat a little in your hand. Eventually you might like to have a hand signal to ask her to sit (many people might be surprised to find out that dogs generally respond even better to hand signals than to voice commands, maybe because we\u2019re always talking at them). I like to use my flat hand, palm towards ceiling, and bending my elbow. It kind of mimics the up and back luring motion you just did. You can make this hand signal by putting the treat under your thumb on your flat hand. Let her sniff it there, say sit and then move that flat hand up and back just like you did before. When her butt touches floor, say \u201cyes!\u201d and give her the treat (and maybe a second one, for having accomplished something slightly new).\u00a0 Once she\u2019s doing that easily with the treat a little more hidden under your thumb, put the treat in your<em> other<\/em> hand and use your signal hand the same way you did last time. This time when she sits, you mark the behavior with \u201cyes!\u201d again but the treat comes in from your other hand. This changes the picture so she knows that she still gets a treat at this point even if she can\u2019t see one. End on a high note.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Start to practice this new behavior in new places with the treat still in the other hand. Dogs don\u2019t generalize very well at first, meaning that she might not know that the request for &#8220;Sit&#8221; will actually be the same behavior in another room, or outside. \u201cBut sit means touch my butt to the living room floor &#8211; how can I do that somewhere else?\u201d Even if you have to lure the first time or two in a new place, it\u2019s OK. She\u2019ll soon realize that &#8220;Sit&#8221; means put your butt down, no matter where we are. And then perhaps she\u2019s getting better at doing it when you say it, or maybe when she sees you follow the word sit with the hand signal. You can work on both.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <strong>OK &#8211; now she\u2019s easily sitting when you ask for it. How do we phase out the treat?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #de7e1f;\">Here\u2019s the best training tip I can give you:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2426\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2426\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"phtot\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2426 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-01-at-8.19.56-AM-300x300.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Julie Murray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">EARN EVERYTHING!<\/span><\/strong> Most dogs like a job. In fact, if you\u2019ve adopted a working breed of dog, you should feel pretty much obliged to find activities that challenge their minds and exercise their bodies (think agility or other organized dog sports, freestyle, nose work, lure coursing, etc). Of course all dogs need stimulation and exercise, and any breed might enjoy these activities! <strong>Another way to always be sharpening their training skills (and yours) and to give them a job to do is to incorporate training throughout their day in a simple way that doesn\u2019t take up a lot of time for you, but gives you great benefits.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>The thing about positive reinforcement training is that it doesn\u2019t mean you have to be permissive,<\/strong> or that they can have anything they want any time they want it, and it certainly doesn\u2019t have to have anything to do with bribery, or that you have to have treats on you to get what you want from them. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Here\u2019s the way to get them to do what you want, the first time you ask:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Once your dog learns a new behavior like sit, and really knows it well, even in new areas and with a little bit of distraction around, you can ask them do this behavior to earn the things in life they want. Any time they\u2019re excited to do something, or want to get to something or someone, or you want to give them something like a new toy or chew, this is your opportunity to get them to earn it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Leadership is important to dogs. This does not mean \u201cdominance\u201d or having them do things you say to avoid punishment.<\/strong> What it means is that you, the leader, controls all of their resources. They have to go through you to gain access to these resources, and you have the power to give or withhold access to them. This kind of leadership is actually quite a bit more powerful than the threat of force. <strong>You are not the impediment to them getting these resources, you are the gateway.<\/strong> They can actually speed up their own access to these resources by doing what you want as soon as you ask them. They can also choose to not do what you ask and lose access to the thing they want (oooh &#8211; powerful stuff). Here are a few examples to illustrate what I mean:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Scenario #1:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Lets say your dog loves to go for a ride in the car. (Remember, you\u2019re going to use this tactic only with things they <em>want<\/em>. If your dog is frightened of the car, you won\u2019t want to make them work for access to something they fear). You\u2019ve worked on &#8220;Sit&#8221; a lot, and the dog has a solid understanding and pretty much does it when you ask, no matter where. You\u2019ve put the leash on and asked \u201cDo you want to go for a ride?\u201d and your dog is stoked! He can\u2019t wait to get in the car. You go out to the car together, and you say \u201cSit\u201d. You\u2019re going to say it once, and not repeat it. (saying \u201cSit. Sit! Sit! Come on, Sit!\u201d only dilutes your cue, making is less meaningful.) If the dog sits, super! Immediately give him access to the car and tell him he\u2019s great. More likely what might happen is that he doesn&#8217;t. When something is exciting, it\u2019s harder for them to do what you ask the first time you ask them. If he didn\u2019t sit, say \u201cOops, Too Bad!\u201d And turn right back around and take him back into the house. Wait a moment or so, and then ask again if he\u2019d like to go for a ride. Repeat what you did before (go to the car and ask for a sit), and still be willing to put your money where your mouth is and go back to the house. What you\u2019re after is a dog that knows he has this one window of opportunity to get what he wants, and as soon as he does it, he gets what he\u2019s after. I\u2019ll just bet you the next time you say sit to get into the car he does it! When he does, don\u2019t give<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2419\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2419 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_6878-300x277.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earning the right to come into Green Dog. Good Job Rita!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">him a treat, just say \u201cYes!\u201d and let him right into the car. He did what you asked, he got what he wanted. It\u2019s likely that the next time you ask for a sit to get into the car, he\u2019ll do it, the first time you ask. Keep your standards high (but of course allow for strange circumstances like a dog hanging out of a window barking at your dog in the parking space next to you) and you\u2019ll get a dog that is on his way to doing what you ask the first time you ask him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Scenario #2:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Your dog loves to meet other dogs. She\u2019s straining at her leash when she sees a dog coming towards her on a walk. In this situation, you are usually just an impediment to her, keeping her away from what she wants. This isn\u2019t great, as she\u2019s not only building excitement and frustration, she might also be making the approaching dog uneasy or overly excited too. If she gets to meet the dog when she\u2019s dragging you, this reinforces that straining at the leash behavior. You\u2019ve basically just told her, \u201cIf you really want to get to that dog, all you have to do is drag me there\u201d. She shouldn\u2019t be blamed for this bad behavior, as she\u2019s only doing what works. <strong>With any behavior you don\u2019t like, ask yourself: What do you wish she <em>would<\/em> do?<\/strong> <strong>Wouldn\u2019t you like it if she sat down and looked to you for permission to greet? This is possible!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Before you\u2019re too close to the other dog, ask if their dog would like to say hi. If the answer is no, then ask your dog to turn away and come with you, using your treats to reward breaking away from the exciting dog and coming with you. (This is a really good treat moment).<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> If the owner says OK, then this is a good Earn Everything moment. Say \u201cGreat &#8211; just give me a minute because she has to sit first&#8221;. This gives you a moment to work on this. Step in front of your dog, facing her and essentially blocking access for a moment. Get her attention, and ask for a&#8221;sit&#8221;. She probably won\u2019t, she\u2019ll likely be trying to get around you. Don\u2019t make a big deal, just say \u201cOops &#8211; too bad\u201d and walk her a little bit back. (Space penalty). Not sitting got you a little farther away, not closer. Still blocking her, ask for a sit again. Repeat the \u201cOops too bad!\u201d and the space penalty backup if you have to. Hopefully, your next \u201cSit\u201d will get her to touch her butt down, even for a second. As soon as she does, you release her with \u201cYes! Go say Hi!\u201d and let them say hi right away. You want to reinforce this amazing skill! The first time might be messy, but the next time might go a bit better. If you\u2019re consistent with this, you will soon have a dog that when she first sees a dog, instead of just charging forward to get to the dog, you start to have a dog that sees another dog and whips her head around to look at you and puts her butt on the ground, as if saying, \u201cDog there! Oh Please can I say hi? Look! I\u2019m sitting!\u201d <strong>You will no longer be the impediment to her joy &#8211; you are the gateway through which she has to pass to get it, and you are very happy to let her have what she wants if she does what you ask right away. She\u2019s finding her way to get what she wants even faster, so a faster response is what will be reinforced.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Scenario #3:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">You can use other rewards he likes to reward a behavior you\u2019re working on. Let\u2019s say you\u2019ve been working on \u201cCome\u201d recently. You\u2019ve just gotten home from a trip to Green Dog and you\u2019ve bought a new stuffed animal for your dog (Thanks!). Don\u2019t just walk into the house and say here\u2019s a new toy! Instead, hide that toy in the waistband of your pants, call the dog to &#8220;Come!&#8221;, and when he runs to you, say \u201cYes!\u201d when he gets there and surprise him with the new toy! Don\u2019t waste an exciting new bone by giving it to him for free. Ask him for a sit or a down or a spin and then surprise him with it. You\u2019re not waving the bone in front of him as a bribe, you\u2019re reinforcing him for doing what you ask. Even if you are holding something up you intend to give him like his food bowl, make him work for it by asking for a few different behaviors in a row, or work on &#8220;wait&#8221; when you put it down. You are the bearer of great things. You are the portal to fun and sustenance. This is a more effective form of power, and your relationship only gets better for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Just make sure that any behavior you\u2019re asking for is fair &#8211; that it\u2019s not something he hasn\u2019t practiced or that it\u2019s not in a stressful new situation. Once behaviors are solid, you don&#8217;t need big training sessions every day if you sprinkle these behaviors into your daytime to make him earn things he wants and make those behaviors more solid &#8211; &#8220;Lay down&#8221; to get dinner. &#8220;Sit&#8221; to go out of the house. &#8220;Spin&#8221; to get into the dog park gate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Do<\/em> use treats to help them trust strangers, to desensitize them to the sound of the scary dump truck, to reinforce important behaviors like \u201cleave it\u201d, (and use extra jackpot treats for leaving something amazing). Keeping a treat-filled training pouch on you for walks is an especially good idea for a young dog, or a fearful dog. <em>Do<\/em> reinforce the things you want your dog to be better at, and they will be.<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2429\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rhonda6-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Of course dogs like to please their owners. That\u2019s one of the many reasons we love them. Your praise and approval can be very reinforcing for most dogs. But the truth is that all animals and people tend to learn what gets them what they want or need faster, and abandon the tactics that don\u2019t work as well. Working with this construct can get you the dog you always wanted. One who looks to you for permission. One who does what you want when you ask them to. A dog that you don\u2019t have to bribe to get them to listen.\u00a0 And above all a dog who trusts you and looks to you for guidance.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #eb9317; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>This article is part of a series about training puppies\/adult dogs (and even tips for cats). Here are links to the others so far:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/blog\/tips-for-new-puppy-owners\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Tips for New Puppy Owners<\/span> <\/a><\/strong>What a fun time you\u2019ll have! We very much want your new baby to live a long, healthy, happy life, so we thought we\u2019d compile some of the nitty-gritty dos-and-don\u2019ts of puppy care. Socialization, nutrition, our favorite chews, tips on potty training, etc!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/blog\/raising-a-puppy-or-any-new-dog-in-the-world-of-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Raising a Puppy (Or Any New Dog) During Covid 19<\/strong><\/a><\/span> This new-puppy-during-quarantine situation does come with a few unique challenges like socialization and avoiding separation anxiety when you go back to work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/blog\/what-do-they-want-how-should-they-get-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">What Do They Want? How Should They Get It?<\/a><\/span> (Foundational Thinking For Creating Good Behavior in puppies and kittens! Part One) <\/strong>Often we hapless humans try our best to tell our puppies (and kittens) what we want them to do or especially not do, yet the bad behaviors increase and we struggle to get them to be what we wish they would be, especially when it comes to attention-getting behaviors. I\u2019m here to offer a few rules of thumb for most any behavior you don\u2019t like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/blog\/to-treat-or-not-to-treat\/\" target=\"_blank\">To Treat Or Not To Treat?<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong> <strong>(Foundational Thinking For Creating Good Behavior In Dogs Part 2 : Choose Your Methods of Training Carefully, especially with Reactive\/Fearful Dogs.) <\/strong>Once you understand how dogs think and learn, and the concepts behind why you use certain methods, you can train just about any behavior you like! <strong>I think it contains what I believe to be some of the most important information I can give you about why we use positive reinforcement, and the dangers of using dominance theory and aversive methods especially when dealing with situations that are uncomfortable for dogs.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/blog\/drop-it\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Drop It!<\/strong> <\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> We\u2019re continuing our puppy series with discussions of common training challenges. It\u2019s so easy to accidentally create a dog that runs away from you when they get a hold of something they shouldn\u2019t have. Wouldn\u2019t you rather they spit something out of their mouth when you approach? You can do it!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/blog\/come\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Come!<\/strong> <\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> The \u201cCome!\u201d command is one of the very most important things we can teach our dog. A reliable recall is imperative to get them quickly to safety, to recover them if they happen to get out the door, and to proactively remove them from a situation at the dog park that might evolve into trouble. It\u2019s also a wonderful luxury when you are in a safe quiet place to be able to have your dog off leash and know you can get him right back when you want to. Like the command \u201cDrop It!\u201d, it\u2019s easy to accidentally make mistakes when training this behavior that can undermine your success. Here\u2019s how to succeed in training a reliable recall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/blog\/raising-a-puppy-or-any-new-dog-in-the-world-of-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greendogpetsupply.com\/blog\/raising-a-puppy-or-any-new-dog-in-the-world-of-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Foundational Thinking For Creating Good Behavior In Dogs Part Three) A lot of people worry about training with treats. * Do I have to keep giving them treats for everything for the rest of their\u00a0 lives? * Aren\u2019t I bribing them? * I want them to do things because they want to please me. * [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-behavior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lela.greendogpetsupply.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lela.greendogpetsupply.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lela.greendogpetsupply.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lela.greendogpetsupply.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lela.greendogpetsupply.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lela.greendogpetsupply.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/lela.greendogpetsupply.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lela.greendogpetsupply.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lela.greendogpetsupply.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lela.greendogpetsupply.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}