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Why then, should we focus on
stimulus control rather than impulse
control? In agility, we traditionally
train impulse control with negative
punishment games. We place food
in front of a dog after we cue him
to " stay, " and when he gets up, we
yank the food away until he sits back
down. This means that the dog is
learning through repeated failure.
While this often does work, it can
also create confusion about the behavior or even yucky feelings about
the behavior on the part of the dog.
Rather than using negative punishment, impulse-control style games
to teach and proof behaviors, we
can first focus on the foundation of
putting our reinforcements (toys and
food) on stimulus control, so that the
dog knows from the beginning not
to take the reinforcement without
being cued to do so.
When we put our reinforcers on
stimulus control, it can open up a
whole new world of creative reward
placement that can help our dogs
understand what we want from
them. By placing rewards ahead of
the dog, we teach him to be forwardfocused on the " job " ahead of him
rather than constantly looking back
at us, wondering when the reinforcement will appear. This creates
independence in the performance of
each obstacle. If our cues that tell the
dog he may take a reward (marker
cues) are consistent and reliable,
the dog obtains independence from
the rewards themselves, so he isn't
always guessing when the toys or
food will be made available. Often,
a lack of stimulus control around
rewards, staying on the start line, or
taking obstacles that " weren't cued "
is where confusion arises or causes
us to label the unwanted behaviors
a " lack of impulse control. " But, is it
impulse control issues with the dog,
or just lack of clarity in our training
that is causing frustration?
Having stimulus control on reinforcements will also prepare the dog for
having stimulus control on obstacles
and other behaviors we teach him
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By placing the toy at the exit of the desired tunnel entrance, we are helping the
dog understand that the tunnel threadle is what we want. Having our reinforcers
on stimulus control allows us to help our dogs more effectively problem-solve.

for navigating a course. When he
understands what to do and when
to do it, the dog becomes confident
(and fast!) in his job.
To start applying stimulus control to
your cues/behaviors;
1.	 Train the behavior (e.g., fetching a toy back to the handler
for a nice game of tug).
2.	 Obtain fluency of the behavior
(e.g., dog quickly brings toy
back to owner's hands and is
rewarded with game of tug).
3.	 Add a cue to the behavior (e.g.,
" Get it! " )/
4.	 Only reward the dog if the behavior is performed after being
cued to do so (e.g., if the dog

grabs the toy without being
cued to " get it, " then the game
of tug does not commence).
Once we have our reinforcements on
stimulus control and can confidently
place them ahead of the dog to train
more complex behaviors (such as contacts or weaves), then we can use this to
help create efficient training routines.
Clean Loops
The concept of " training loops, " or
" loopy training, " depending who you
ask, is a means by which we use our
reinforcement delivery and placement to create a theoretical and/or
physical " loop " that sets the dog up
to perform the behavior in question
successfully and fluidly each time.
In addition, clean loops allow us to
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