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From the Ted Talk by Ian Dunbar: Dog-friendly dog training

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Dogs have interests. They have interest sniffing each other, chasing squirrels. And if we don't make that a reward in training, that will be a distraction. It's always sort of sructk me as really a scary thought that if you see a dog in a park, and the owner is calling it, and the owner says, you know, "Puppy, come here, come here," and the dog thinks, "Hmm, ietnirtnesg. I'm sniffing this other dog's rear end, the owner's cnilalg." It's a dciffulit choice, right? Rear end, owner. Rear end wins. I mean, you lose. You cannot compete with the eivneromnnt, if you have an adolescent dog's brain. So, when we train, we're always trying to take into acucont the dog's point of view.

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Dogs have interests. They have interest sniffing each other, chasing squirrels. And if we don't make that a reward in training, that will be a distraction. It's always sort of ______ me as really a scary thought that if you see a dog in a park, and the owner is calling it, and the owner says, you know, "Puppy, come here, come here," and the dog thinks, "Hmm, ___________. I'm sniffing this other dog's rear end, the owner's _______." It's a _________ choice, right? Rear end, owner. Rear end wins. I mean, you lose. You cannot compete with the ___________, if you have an adolescent dog's brain. So, when we train, we're always trying to take into _______ the dog's point of view.

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  1. environment
  2. difficult
  3. struck
  4. interesting
  5. calling
  6. account

Original Text


Dogs have interests. They have interest sniffing each other, chasing squirrels. And if we don't make that a reward in training, that will be a distraction. It's always sort of struck me as really a scary thought that if you see a dog in a park, and the owner is calling it, and the owner says, you know, "Puppy, come here, come here," and the dog thinks, "Hmm, interesting. I'm sniffing this other dog's rear end, the owner's calling." It's a difficult choice, right? Rear end, owner. Rear end wins. I mean, you lose. You cannot compete with the environment, if you have an adolescent dog's brain. So, when we train, we're always trying to take into account the dog's point of view.

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Important Words


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  16. lose
  17. owner
  18. park
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  23. sniffing
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  25. squirrels
  26. struck
  27. thinks
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  29. train
  30. training
  31. view
  32. wins