Why does every ball throw during play matter for a dog's learning?
Dog Smart professional interpretation
By Dog Smart Training & Behaviour · · · 1 min read
In short
Because ball play is highly reinforcing, every launch reinforces the behaviour (or chain of behaviours) that preceded it, so owners should use play purposefully with a plan rather than wasting its teaching potential, since 'what you chuck is what you get.'
The fuller picture
No.5 Don`t waste it, this little game is highly reinforcing, every-time you launch that ball you reinforce one or usually a chain of behaviours that happened before it, your dogs are always learning. You can teach so much with play if you use it correctly and use the right sort of play for your learner, this isn't a game this is a teaching tool so like anything you teach have a plan. In clicker training there is an expression "What you click is what you get" never a truer word said! I want you to take this one from me. "What you chuck is what you get"