PetLifeRadio.com - Canine Nation Episode 16 Dogs and Concepts - Learning Beyond Behaviors

Summary: Sit!. Down!. Fetch!. These are things that most people associate with dog training. But is there more we can teach our dogs beyond simple behaviors? You might be surprised that you already do! And there might be more you can teach them. It’s not hard to teach our dogs to do tricks. They are, after all, just behaviors. But how do you teach a dog to think about things like bigger and smaller or closer or farther away? Our dogs have the capacity to learn such things and they do it every day. What if we could engage that conceptual learning? What might be possible if we trained beyond just behaviors?