How to discipline a dog with positive reinforcement?
Nathaniel Greenfelder
2025-07-21 17:43:41
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Effective discipline is an integral part of positive training, but discipline is used by positive trainers and owners to guide the dog into making the right choices and eventually thinking for himself. Constructive disciplinary techniques such as removal, time outs, taking something of value away, ignoring behavior and interrupting negative behavior with a vocal interrupter. Using constructive discipline to guide the dog into making better choices, not inflicting pain or instilling fear in the dog, influencing an animal’s behavior without the use of force. Anyone can get a dog to behave using punitive training but it takes a real understanding of dog psychology to use discipline effectively without inflicting pain or fear and to guide a dog into not repeating negative behavior while maintaining trust. Discipline is an important part of the learning process, but the form of discipline used in positive training differs greatly from the types of discipline used in dominance training. Positive does not mean permissive, of course effective discipline is an integral part of positive training.