Species K9 Dog Training
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Mon 8:00 AM to 7:00 PMTue 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Wed 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Thu 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Fri 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Sat 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
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About Species K9 Dog Training
Species K9 Dog Training, located in Waco and San Antonio Texas, can help you create a strong, positive relationship with your dog through their unique way, They offer a variety of services including puppy selection, dog training broken down into phases, service dog training, protection dog training, housebreaking and habitation training, and aggression training. What makes them different is their focus on understanding the root cause of dog behaviors to achieve lasting results. Contact Species K9 Dog Training today to schedule a consultation and discuss your dog's specific needs. For more on what we do, visit https://speciesk9.com/lima/ For dog training in San Antonio, check out https://speciesk9.com/san-antonio-dog-trainer/
Areas Served
Waco, Temple, San Antonio and, onlineServices
Dog Training
Basic obedience, aggression, protection training, and off-leash training. In-home, private, and online.
LIMA Dog Training
We are a LIMA dog training company for more on what LIMA is please visit https://speciesk9.com/lima/
Protection Dog Training
Protection Training, making your dog a part of your first line of defense. The misconceptions about protection dog training come from TV shows and people seeing police K9s and military working dogs (MWD). All dogs who go through our protection training have to go through all 3 phases of training first. Command and control of a dog that is being trained to bite is paramount. Not having verbal control over a dog in a high-stress, fight situation is a recipe for a lawsuit. It is true that if you have a selectively bred dog like a German Shepard, Belgian Malinois, or Dutch Shepard it will be easy to train them in protection work. However, under the right circumstances, the vast majority of dogs will show some signs of instinct to protect a family member. The difference between a protection dog and a police K9 is the drive they work in. A personal protection dog is working in Defense and Fight Drive. The instinct to protect its pack members. Police K9s and MWD are working in Prey and Fight Drive. They sense the fear of someone, see them running with the instinct to chase (prey drive) they chase them. The drive to chase is so great they will run virtually forever to bite their prey. There are a lot of trainers out there who claim to train “protection” dogs, in reality, these dogs are in play drive it’s not real. A true protection dog is used for defense only and you have full control of the dog. If you are attacked, you do not want your dog chasing the person to the end of the block to bite them. You want to get your dog back and get out of there. There are criminal and civil liabilities if your dog goes “too far” with the bite. Once the threat is retreating, it’s over. Anything beyond that you are now the attacker. If you are looking for a protection dog we would be happy to help you and recommend some breeders. If you have a dog that you would like to train in protection work, we are happy to discuss the process and evaluate your dog. https://speciesk9.com/protection-dog-training-waco/
Avoidance Conditioning Dog Training
Avoidance conditioning in dog training is looked upon with skepticism and apprehension. This is due to people not understanding the psychology behind it. In a study published in 1960 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology titled Learning Resistance to Pain and Fear: Effects of Overlearning, Exposure, and Rewarded Exposure in Context. By Neal Miller. Here the experimenters trained motivated rats (hungry rats) to run down a small alleyway. The first group was exposed to a small electric shock (competing motivation) when they got to the food, this shock was gradually increased throughout the trails habituating the rats to the pain and fear of getting the food reward. Another group of rats who were not habituated to the shock did not run as fast to the food. The shock motivation was at a high enough level to deter them from running as fast as they could to the food for fear of being shocked (Miller 1960). This is classical conditioning. This is what is done in avoidance conditioning in dog training, with one small variation. The punishment for the dog cannot put your dog into a fight-or-flight drive. This is counter to what you are attempting to accomplish in training in addition the time and level must be perfect otherwise learned helplessness can take place, thus shutting your dog down. The idea is to give a high enough adverse fast enough so the dog stops challenging it. This can only be done after the dog knows the command, what a correction is, and how to avoid it. That is why we dog train in steps, we do not skip steps and we follow the plan because it gets results. If you want real results contact us today What is Avoidance Condition in Dog Training In Lameman terms avoidance conditioning is the act of teaching a dog to avoid a punishment (more on punishment later). We do not want to spend the rest of our dogs life giving correction, we want to condition the dog to think if they break a command or do not comply with a command a correction is coming. The practices is in line with LIMA remember LIMA stands for Least Intrusive, Minimally Aversive. This means giving a dog two or three strong advisories and never again, is far better then a life of constant corrections. Avoidance Conditioning Example When we are housebreaking or working on habitation with a dog that has a habit of grabbing items off the floor they are not allowed we will put on an E-Collar set it at a moderately high level and wait for the dog to grab the shoe off the floor as soon as they grab it the get a correction on the E-collar. It only takes 2 or 3 times for this to happen and the dog is now conditioned to know if I grab that this unpleasant thing will happen. It is better that I do no grab it. They are now conditioned to avoid the shoe. Another example of this is teaching a dog how to “Heel”, after completing Phases 1, 2 and going through Escape conditioning 3rd phase we teach the dog how to avoid all corrections for the Heel. So we have the dog in the Heel command we are walking the encounters something highly motivational like a cat running, the dog breaks from the Heel. We give a motivational level of correction on the E-Collar. The dog corrects its self we praise give love and keep walking, we then jump up 10 points on the collar (this is to avoid the dog getting accustom to the nic). The next time the dog breaks under a similar circumstance they get another nic. We repeat this until we find a motivational enough level so the dog stops challenging it. Why How Does Avoidance Conditioning Work Avoidance Conditioning only works when the dog first understand the command and how to escape the correction it is getting. You cannot simply put in an E-collar on a dog and expect them to know what to do when they break from a command and get a correction. They will push the dog into fight or flight and no learning will take place, and in some cases the dog will redirect onto the handler. Negative side-effects happen when not using an E-collar correctly. Avoidance conditioning works because we are tricking the dogs brain to think it is going to experience something unpleasant when it breaks from the command. Its because a conditioned response. That is why one must generalize training, the dogs response to an e-collar when its adrenaline is high say in a high state of arousal in prey drive chasing a cat as compared to someone knocking on the door. Cited Miller. N LEARNING RESISTANCE TO PAIN AND FEAR: EFFECTS OF OVERLEARNING, EXPOSURE, AND REWARDED EXPOSURE IN CONTEXT. Yale (1960). https://speciesk9.com/category/dog-training/
Professional Dog Training in Waco, TX for Happy, Obedient Companions At Species K9 Dog Training Waco, we take a scientific, whole-dog approach to dog training. Through the use of classical and operant conditioning, which breaks down into 3 phases. Dog training is wholly based on science, not conjecture or opinions. We get to the root problem of dog behaviors and humanely address them. Counter to the purely positive dog trainers, counterconditioning does not surprise behaviors to effect change. Purely bribing your dog with treats and toys masks the real problems. With over 20 years of studying dog training, dog behavior, and ABA (applied behavior analysis), at the end of training your dog will reliably respond in a variety of situations. Foundation Style Dog Training works because it is rooted in science. All that we teach and train is proven in studies, scientific literature, and our results. Our results speak for themselves. Here at Species K9 Training, we specialize in aggression cases and behavior issues. We address the real issues of behavior, we DO NOT simply repress them. When speaking with other dog trainers ask them questions such as: Why does your training work? Why is my dog acting this way? Why doesn’t my dog obey? A knowledgeable trainer can explain those answers without blaming the dog. If a trainer tells you “your dog is stubborn” or “it’s acting out” they know nothing about dog behavior, ethology, or how dogs learn.