Every Piece of Food Has a Purpose: Feeding With Intention

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of intentional feeding in dog training and the potential pitfalls of using food as a reward.

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this episode of the Sexier than a Squirrel podcast, the podcast that brings you real-life dog training results, and sometimes human training ones too! This week, we’re diving into one of the most misunderstood topics in dog training: food. Are you bribing your dog? Creating a treat monster? Or accidentally training the very behaviours you don’t want? At absoluteDogs, we believe something simple but powerful: every piece of food has a purpose. When you start using f...

Topics covered

• dog training
• feeding
• food purpose
• behavior training
• treats

Keywords

• dog training
• food purpose
• treat monster
• behavior
• feeding with intention

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: absoluteDogs

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