NePoPo®

NePoPo® is Michael & Bart Bellon’s negative-positive-positive dog training system, where the dog learns to do, on cue, with Heart & Soul. And when the dog gets that inevitable correction, instead of being demotivated, the dogs comes back better than ever.

Have you ever noticed a dog pick up his food bowl, all happy - eyes burning like cigarettes, tail wagging, ears up - and bring it to you to fill… but when you try to get him to pick up something in a training session, he won’t touch the item you want him to take?

Or a dog sniffing while on a walk - you can’t pull him away from the smells! But when you try to train him in scent work, he acts like he doesn’t have a nose?

Why is it when it’s his own invention, he does it with passion, but when you want him to do the same thing, he thinks it’s torture?

Well, first we have to ask WHY does a dog do?

To better his own situation. Not because you are his master, and he loves you... But to better his own situation.

HOW does a dog better his own situation?

Thru Positive reinforcement (PoPo), Negative reinforcement (NePo), and NePoPo® when we like the behavior. And corrections or aversives when we don’t want the behavior to repeat.

The two dog training systems we use in NePoPo® are Operant Conditioning & Classical Conditioning.

Operant conditioning starts with a spontaneous behavior. If we like the behavior, we encourage it with PoPo, NePo, and NePoPo®. And if we don’t like the behavior, we discourage it with corrections and aversives. We put that on command using Classical Conditioning.

Classical conditioning starts with one new signal taking the place of a well-known behavior or signal.

And end up with a dog who always does, on cue, with Heart & Soul.

NePoPo® is a registered Service Mark of Bart Bellon and Michael Bellon and is used here with permission.