Pawsitive Vibes Dog Training LLC

01/03/2025

Happy new year!!! Big things are coming keep your eyes peeled!

10/24/2024

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Crate games with Leia!

10/14/2024

Ruby is a medium sized girl, she is participating in our Pawsitive Vibes Dog Training Program and will graduate the beginning of November. You might ask what our training program does for you and your family, she will be house trained, crate trained (so no getting up in the middle of the night); sits, stays, lays down, knows “place” and importantly also walks on a loose leash. Ruby is just a doll!

09/30/2024

09/13/2024

Pawsitive vibes shout out!! 💜💜💜💜

This is Lark. Lark had a very rough start. Three months ago he didn’t look like this. He was under weight, had a huge sore on his back, couldn’t sit right, and deaf.

Now he is the beefcake! Defying all of the previous assumptions and diagnosis. He is stronger every single day and loves to training.

Being deaf we have to take a different approach with training, but it has been so amazing to watch him grow and change. He has an amazing future ahead of him!! 💜💜💜💜

09/06/2024

Pawsitive vibes friends and family!!!

I have an announcement to make!!!

The mayor will of divide Fern will be joining us at Jades promise tomorrow!!!!

I love this girl so much and can’t wait to show her this amazing park that feeds my heart!!!

09/05/2024

For Information contact cc parks and rec!!

09/04/2024

Jades promise is a few days away!!!!

I created a link if anyone would like to donate but can’t make it to the event. Proceeds will go towards shade for the dogs and their humans and eventually getting water to the park.

We hope you all can make it and look forward to seeing everyone there!! 😂😂😂💜

09/02/2024

Term of the Day! Negative Reinforcement!
Negative Reinforcement. The removal of an aversive stimuli to increase the future likelihood of a behavior to occur again.

There is a lot to unpack here- at its core- an aversive must be present for the rest of this to work. It is that removal of that aversive that ensures the behavior may occur again.

Get in the car, an annoying sound plays, until you buckle your seatbelt. This ensures you put your your seatbelt when you get in the car.

Prong collars- can either be seen as negative reinforcement or positive punishment. For the negative reinforcement aspect- Put on a prong collar, dog pulls, feels pain and uncomfortable feelings, they stop pulling and walk at a slower place. In the future they don’t pull to avoid that aversive and walk at the desired slower pace. Or they walk at various paces and try to figure out which one does not give the pain.

All these things work because an aversive is present. Not all reinforcement contingencies are necessarily good ones. Negative reinforcement can be effective and in the short term but should only be reserved for the short term while a more positive plan is figured out.

Negative R can be more aversive and ineffective due to poor timing, reliance on removal of the aversive stimuli- prong collars are examples of this- people continue to use prong collars and rely on the pain it produces to stop the pulling, rather than switching to a harness or other means and teaching the dog through positive reinforcement to walk at a gentler pace. This leads to further fall out. Again negative reinforcement should be used in the short term only while a plan is worked out for more learning of what is expected.

Further fallout includes lack of motivation to learn, with the animal doing just enough to avoid the aversive stimuli but no motivation for more. This can inhibit learning greatly.

If you think of humans- how many of us want to learn by the removal of a painful or uncomfortable stimuli. Eventually this ruins relationships and damages motivation.

So negative reinforcement- introduce an aversive stimuli and use its removal to create behavior change and increase a behavior due to the removal. Unlike punishment, the avsersive in present before or during a behavior and once the organism does what you want, the aversive is removed. A much more difficult and harder way to learn or teach and organism something especially due to its fall out and effect on the learner.

08/31/2024

New feature of the Soul Dog pages! Terms in behavior science! Today’s term is: Positive Reinforcement.
This means: Adding a stimulus (a preferable or liked stimuli) after a behavior to increase the future likelihood of the behavior to occur again.

I’m starting here because this is often how learning happens or rather behaviors we want to keep seeing. It’s important to note, the more you reinforce a behavior, the more you will see this behavior. Organisms are seekers of rewards not punishments.

By definition- positive reinforcement works always- if a behavior is improving upon presentation of this reinforcer, then it’s working. If it’s NOT working and the behavior is not increasing then there are errors in procedure, the reinforcer itself is not reinforcing (just because an organism likes something doesn’t mean it will increase behavior).

There is no animal that R+ does not work for. The laws of behavior are the same. The mightiest lion in the zoo is trained using R+ and other positive methods in applied behavior analysis to the biggest of dogs.

Even if a behavior is maladaptive- it means the animal is being reinforced by doing that behavior somehow. We must figure that out and find those alternative behaviors that are adaptive instead and reinforce those.

Behavior goes where reinforcement flows. Period.

Questions?

08/31/2024

A week away!! Cripple creek parks and recreation and I are super excited to see everyone next Saturday!!!

08/31/2024

Thank you Rocky Mountain Dinosaur research center for your donation to jades promise!!

08/31/2024

Thank you TCRAS for your beautiful basket donation for jades promise!!

08/26/2024