Reinforcing the right behavior in dogs
Every time you reinforce the desired behavior you are helping your dog to succeed. Reward him, lavish affection and attention upon him every single time he performs the correct action. Since your dog has built up a reinforcement history of the undesirable behavior you must work doubly hard to counter this by heavily reinforcing the desired behavior. Every time your dog gives the correct response he is taking one step closer to successfully breaking the old habit.
