Dog Health Questions: How do I make my dog see my praise and affection as a "High-Value" object?

Usually when I'm training my full-blooded Papillon, I give her a food treat as a reward for doing the correct commands.(Treats are her ""High-Value" object.) However, she only follows commands if I have a treat for her. How do I make my praise and affection worth the same as her treats? I'm new to the dog training world, so please bear with me. Thanks to all who respond.

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With some dogs you have to slowly wean them off. Try giving the treat on every other command with a good praise. Keep the praise in the same tone each time you treat and not treat

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• You need to make the treats less valuable. This is done by not showing the dog the treat but giving it to the dog after the command is performed. You also need to start training a non treat correction. This may be as easy as placing the dog in the position that you want up to a gentle collar correction. When this dog does something wonderful, both of you need to party. Just a good dog and a pat will not do especially right now. You need to make it your job to be much more fun then the food. This means that you release her and play with her for a few moments. If she has a favorite toy, then you make the toy appear and play with her. Doing this takes a little more time then just giving a treat and going on but the bonding that comes with the play rewards are just wonderful. Using a combination of food, play and toys will keep the dog guessing which will make her more intense as she won't really know what's coming.


• You really can't. Not to anthropomorphize, but would you ever prefer praise from your boss instead of a paycheck?
  
  Is there some place special your dog likes being touched almost as well as a treat? Maybe his ears or at the base of his tail?
  
  Like others have said, try alternating the types of rewards - food one time, praise the next and a toy the third.
  
  If you are 101% positive your dog knows something, like sit. then a correction is necessary, followed by what she considers to be of high value.


• I would suggest the you minimize the times where you give your dog a treat and focus more on praising him or petting him whenever he did something right or good. this may take a while but he will learn it eventually.. you should also check out http://www.antileon-ent.com/dog/ they have a number of tips that can be helpful in dog training. :)


• when you give your dog a tread,pad it at the same time and tell her good girl. to get her off of the treads,do it little by little. you have her spoiled with treads,that is the reason why she don't listen otherwise.when you train her,do it without a tread. if she don't listen to you then,don't give her anything.because if you tread her anyway,then she believes it is ok not to listen. i know it's hard,but remember you are the leader not her. i'm not saying you shouldn't give her treads,just go easy on it.for example: when you tell her to sit and she does,don't grab for a tread just pad her and tell her good girl and leave it as that. repeat it for a few times. after the third or fourth time give her a tread. with a lot of passion on your pared she will learn that she don't need a tread to be a good girl. hope it helps you.