The Theory of Motivation in Dog Training

One of the most important concepts that every new pet owner must learn, if they want to become an effective dog trainer, is how to motivate their dog to want to follow commands and participate in training. When people first begin to train their dog many confuse “rewarding their dog” with “motivating their dog”. While these two concepts are very close in nature there is a difference.

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Ed Frawley has owned and trained dogs for over 45 years. He has bred over 350 litters of working bloodline German Shepherds in the last 30 years! He has been a police K9 handler for 10 years and was chairman of the training committee for the Wisconsin Police K9 Assoc. for several years. He has competed in AKC obedience training, Schutzhund, and at one time was a herding Judge for the AKC. In 1982 Ed started to produce dog training videos and since that time he has produced over 120 dog training videos and DVD's. His web site, leerburg.com is over 10,000 pages which includes a web discussion board that has 8,500 members and an archive of over 100,000 posts.