Dog Training "Quotes"

The animal is never wrong - you get what you reinforce. All behavior has function, including undesirable behavior. The question is not "Why is the animal behaving this way" but rather, "What's reinforcing this behavior?" 

- Susan Friedman

“ Our dog's potential is created or destroyed by the Belief we have in them and about them. “. 

—Susan Garrett 

"In order to really Enjoy a dog, One doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog."

- Edward Hoagland

“Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, filling an emptiness we don't even know we have." 

- Thom Jones

“There is an important maxim in training: control the games, control the dog”  

- Jean Donaldson

"Focus on moving forward, not on the size of your steps"

- Mel Robbins

“Any individual who truly has a lot of social status has enough power that he or she doesn't need to use force. “

- Patricia B. McConnell,

"AT 4 MONTHS, YOU WERE CUTE.

AT 6 MONTHS, YOU ATE MOST OF MY SHOES. AT 1 YEAR, YOU WERE GETTING BIG. AT 2 YEARS, YOU WERE HYPER. AT 4 YEARS, WE WERE BEST FRIENDS. AT 9 YEARS, WE WERE INSEPARABLE. AT 14

YEARS, I WISH I COULD DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN.

- Unknown

Bottom line: social skills develop with repeated exposure and deteriorate with isolation.”

- Jean Donaldson

‘Our companion dog asks for only a small investment on the part of its owners but offers a huge reward in return for a bed to sleep on, a few games to play, a bit of love and affection now and again and food and water.’

— John Rogerson

“Punished behavior is likely to reappear after the punitive consequences are withdrawn.”

— B. F. Skinner