Comments on: Know Your Motivations – Good for the Dog; Good for You https://www.somethingwagging.com/know-your-motivations-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/ Helping Your Dog Love The Boat As Much As You Do Sun, 14 Mar 2021 22:26:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Real Life Confession #13: I am a Challenge Failure | Rescued InsanityRescued Insanity https://www.somethingwagging.com/know-your-motivations-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-57227 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:59:48 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=8401#comment-57227 […] Avoidance of things I dislike is one of my biggest motivators – à la Something Wagging This Way Comes. Really I should have figured this out long […]

]]> By: Donna https://www.somethingwagging.com/know-your-motivations-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-51544 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:40:45 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=8401#comment-51544 Excellent post, and a timely one for me as I am trying to figure out what I it is I want out of this life, who I want to be….plus you’ve given me an idea for a blog post, so thanks for that! I’ll definitely put a link back.

P.S. I’m glad to hear your blogger exchange went so well. I wasn’t online much in December and did not catch wind of it until it was too late, but if you plan to do it again next year I will definitely stay on the lookout for it. 🙂

]]> By: Jen https://www.somethingwagging.com/know-your-motivations-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-51425 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:12:43 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=8401#comment-51425 You send that person with the $100 bills and the vaccuum to my house!

Motivation is an interesting thing…..I think it’s easier to figure out Elka’s motivations than my own!

]]> By: Jodi https://www.somethingwagging.com/know-your-motivations-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-51345 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:26:24 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=8401#comment-51345 In reply to Pamela.

I will share with you. 🙂 I’m very much driven by praise and reward. What can I say, I want desperately for people to like me. It’s the little girl in me. 🙁 But that’s a therapy session right there! LOL

]]> By: Julie https://www.somethingwagging.com/know-your-motivations-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-51337 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:59:55 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=8401#comment-51337 Ha ha! Kristine and I are obviously very similar! My quiz told me many of the same things – I avoid things that I don’t like and I am very responsive to positive motivation (that MUST be why I loved being a dog walker!!). Cali is so similar to Honey and she loves hide and seek!!

]]> By: Amy@GoPetFriendly https://www.somethingwagging.com/know-your-motivations-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-51319 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:06:22 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=8401#comment-51319 Excellent post, Pamela! I think it’s easier to figure out what motivates the dogs than what motivates me. Ty is definitely focused on food and Buster is play/pack driven. I’ll have to spend a little more time thinking about myself.

]]> By: Kristine https://www.somethingwagging.com/know-your-motivations-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-51300 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:55:32 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=8401#comment-51300 Ouch, my results don’t surprise me but they are not exactly complimentary. I am not motivated internally either and I usually require some sort of reward – such as good grades in school or public recognition – in order to work hard. If someone was going to pay me $100 to vacuum, my house would be spotless. I do worry about letting others down but since I am also motivated by avoidance of things I don’t like, according to the test, I tend to not get into situations in which letting people down is a possibility. 😛

Now if only I could figure out a way to get rewarded for going to the dentist…

Great post, for sure. I think about Shiva’s motivations all the time. We’ve tried so many different things, especially with recall training, but food really does seem to be the be all for her. If there is something to shove in her mouth, she doesn’t care if she is the only dog in the world. In fact, she prefers it. This is why I still haven’t been able to successfully call her away from food lying on the ground, even if I have better food in my pocket. She loves to chase… Maybe I need to bring the cat along on our walks? I’ll figure it out one day!

]]> By: Sue at Talking Dogs https://www.somethingwagging.com/know-your-motivations-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-51278 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:56:29 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=8401#comment-51278 Your post really hit home for me. I snorted my coffee when I read: “So if inviting people to the house motivates me to clean, I’ve gotta host more parties.” Though I’d rather you host those parties. I’ll live with the dog hair! lol

I’d like to have taken the quiz before this past year. No doubt the results would have been very different. My sense of self is that I’m very much like you. However, talking it today was enlightening in terms of how recent life events have changed me. Here’s the essence of my results: “Your major motivation is to avoid things that you don’t like. This can mean organising your life to avoid or to escape punishment or pain.” Amazingly true at the moment. Will take the other quiz for the dogs later… thanks for the insight.

]]> By: Dee https://www.somethingwagging.com/know-your-motivations-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-51277 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:53:08 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=8401#comment-51277 I LOVE this post. Can you find a way to get this to every dog lover on the planet, Pamela? Brilliant!

So, the human part (I get dogs, it’s people who confuse me 🙂 … Like you, I am unmotivated by money. Ideas. Challenges. Dogs. They are my motivators. In that vein, today I meet with my local Pen Pals administrators to see if we can partner (no money will change hands) to identify dogs being trained by inmates in local prisons – dogs who I can pull for clients who need service dogs. How cool is that? Not a new idea, I know. But new to me. Oh, the possibilities.

]]> By: Long Life Cats and Dogs https://www.somethingwagging.com/know-your-motivations-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-51260 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:39:55 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=8401#comment-51260 What a fantastic post and food for thought. I will certainly be spending more time trying to figure out my motivation. I do it for my dog but failed to do it for myself. Now I’ll give it a good try.

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