Ty The Dog Guy On The Daily

Today I want to talk about something I call a “contextual repetition.” I’ve been thinking about a challenge that some of our clients have, and recently came up with that term to refer to it. A lot of people find that when they start training, they see big results in certain areas. But in other areas, it takes them longer to get the results and sometimes there is a little frustration. Perhaps their dog goes nuts when somebody rings the doorbell, or doesn’t immediately respond to aggression training. I’ve determined that the challenge lies in contextual repetitions. Let’s say you're teaching your dog to sit. You can teach this command in a few minutes, and you can get repetitions in easily around the house. You can get hundreds in the space of a week! As we all know, repetition is a big key to learning. So your dog might only take a few days or a week to learn “sit” or “lay down” if you work on it all the time. Yet the person whose dog learned “sit” quickly might become frustrated when someone rings the