21/11/2025
Training must be fun for you and your dog. Training needs to be part of everyday life. If it isn’t enjoyable you are not going to succeed and your relationship with your dog will not develop.
One way we can help to teach our dogs is by allowing them rest time in between training sessions. These are vitally important.
There are several arguments as to how or if latent learning is as important as has been previously argued. However, I know over the last forty years I have been training and I have seen dogs arrive to their next training session who have ‘got it’. It is the ‘Eureka effect’ which can suddenly happen or the memory consolidation time which allows the information to move to their long term memory.
Remember, it's never too early or too late to begin training.
Definition:
[Latent learning is] learning that occurs during non-reinforced trials but that remains unused until the introduction of a reinforcer provides an incentive for using it.–Lieberman, David A. Learning: Behavior and Cognition. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 1990.
