Attentive Cooperation: Using Puppy Politeness Poker For Healthy Relationships

By Suzanne Clothier

Whether you have a newly adopted dog, a brand new pup, a challenging adolescent dog, or any age dog with behavior problems, Puppy Politeness Poker (PPP) can be helpful. PPP teaches your dog to be attentive and cooperative in return for real life rewards (RLR). Easy, quick interactions throughout the day create positive changes in the dog/human relationship.

What the dog learns through PPP is simple and important: “You do this for me, I’ll do that for you.”

Effective and humane, Puppy Politeness Poker:

• relies on intrinsic motivation

• uses real-life rewards

• develops attentive cooperation

• teaches self-control

• improves communication

• is force-free, no equipment necessary

• is non-confrontational, making it suitable for dogs with aggression or other behavior issues

Started early in life, attentive cooperation becomes the natural response from the dog.

You may discover the value of PPP when your adolescent dog is sliding out of control. PPP is useful for teaching teenage dogs self control, and can help rebalance the relationship in humane, effective, force-free ways.

PPP is ideal for adopted & rescued dogs who haven’t yet learned about kind relationships with people. PPP emphasizes choice for the dog, and offers a way for the dog to feel in control of his life.

Innovative trainer Suzanne Clothier (author of Bones Would Rain from the Sky) is well known for her Relationship Centered Training approach. In ATTENTIVE COOPERATION, her usual humor and thorough understanding of dogs is obvious. She provides practical, sensible and humane advice, while keeping the dog/human relationship central at all times.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Flying Dog Press
• Release date: Jul 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9780976548966

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Healthy Relationships & Attentive Cooperation

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Whether you have a newly adopted dog, a brand new pup, a challenging adolescent dog, or any age dog with behavior problems, Puppy Politeness Poker (PPP) can be helpful.

Puppy Politeness Poker teaches your dog to be attentive and cooperative in return for real life rewards (RLR). Easy, quick interactions throughout the day create positive changes in the dog/human relationship.

What the dog learns through PPP is simple and important: You do this for me, I’ll do that for you.

Effective and humane, Puppy Politeness Poker:

relies on intrinsic motivation

uses real-life rewards

develops attentive cooperation

teaches self-control

improves communication

is force-free, no equipment necessary

is non-confrontational, making it suitable for dogs with aggression or other behavior issues

Started early in life, attentive cooperation becomes the natural response from the dog.

You may discover the value of PPP when your adolescent dog is sliding out of control. PPP is useful for teaching teenage dogs self control, and can help rebalance the relationship in humane, effective, force-free ways.

PPP is ideal for dogs who haven’t yet learned about kind relationships with people. PPP emphasizes choice for the dog, and offers a way for the dog to feel in control of his life.

Let’s take a closer look at how and why Puppy Politeness Poker works.

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Do You Have A Trust Fund Puppy?

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Some dogs remind me a lot of the famous socialites notable for — well, for what? Let’s just say the fame has not resulted from these folks being hard working members of society. If anything, they appear to be utterly free of the responsibilities that shape most people’s lives. Trust fund babies have their every material need provided for, without expectations or even consequences for what they do or don’t do.

Trainers know that there are Trust Fund Puppies. Like their human counterpart, the Trust Fund Puppy neither toils nor does he spin. A Trust Fund Puppy is one who has no real obligations to behave in particular ways. No matter what the dog does or does not do, life rolls right on.

Ignore your handler? No worries, there won’t be any consequences. Feel free to keep doing whatever you like. In fact, your handler will probably just keep repeating signals. Sloppy responses? You’ll get praise and some treats anyhow.

This is a lot like telling a trust fund kid to clean his room. Repeatedly. And when that doesn’t work, do it for him. And then tell him how good he was to clean his room, and see if you can add a cash bonus too. That