Animal Training

I am still amazed at how the whole Operant Conditioning works. It is crazy how you can get animals to pick up the message that you are sending them to do. They understand and are aware of what is being asked to do. I wonder how far in depth someone can take the Operant Conditioning in working with animals!

It's funny to think that we use Operant Conditioning probably on a regular basis growing up. I have two dogs and we definitely did Operant Conditioning with them, but I never knew there was a name for how we trained them. There's even multiple times I've used Operant Conditioning on my littler sister......... hahaha being the big sister I apparently felt that I could manipulate my little sister into doing things for my benefit. So strange how our brains work and how attentively we respond to Operant Conditioning ways.

I think Operant Conditioning is a great way to teach people and animals how to do things in the way that we want them to/should do. I think it is most definitely the healthiest way to teach a human, or animal good habits. My aunt had a dog a while back, and she was a firm believer in solely Operant Conditioning. She always told me to never hit a dog for doing something bad because they'll remember it forever and that if you were in his paws you wouldn't want to be hit either for doing something wrong.