Use Sound To Break Bad Behavior!

The fastest, easiest, most effective approach is to recreate the undesired situation in a controlled setting, and correctly use sound distractions with praise to erase the malbehavior.

Dogs can learn or unlearn almost anything in four properly conducted repetitions. Taken to it's extreme, these four repetitions should be performed in four different places, or with different people, dogs, or whatever the "props" involved may be. Understanding how dogs think, learn, and process information is a stretch of the imagination for most of us. It is obvious that they know more about psychology than we do.
They think, have a sense of humor, communicate, tease, lie, steal, etc. just like any one else. But, they don't think human. Dogs are limited to thinking like dogs. It's your responsibility to think things out from their perspective and try to use good judgement. Be consistent.

Dogs get confused if you're not consistent. Now that you are getting familiar with teaching a command through conditioned reflex, you can use similar techniques to stop or break any behavior whatsoever. Using the cans, or any other source of sound, so long as it is brief, and so long as it can be presented from different directions on each consecutive instance, are all that you need to do to break any behavior. Simply create the sound, and follow through with praise!

It's that simple. Any behavior can be stopped or broken, simply by creating a sound, and praising immediately. The secret is, to allow the undesired behavior to begin again, and simply present the sound from another direction, and follow through with praise.

Of course you have to understand how your dog thinks and learns in order to successfully achieve this. Each time you create a sound to stop or break a behavior, you must praise him for as long as he refrains from continuing such behavior (at least until he no longer thinks about that instance, usually ten or fifteen seconds), and be prepared to create your sound distraction and praise as soon as the behavior begins again.

This is the sticking point with so many trainers.
"Why should I praise this critter if he's not even doing what I want?"
Remember, dogs do not think in human terms. Most behavior problems are simply a failure to clearly communicate.
Of course, you may continue correcting your dog forever, as most trainers do. We do not understand why a trained dog needs correction. Seems that if he were trained, that would be the end of it.
That would imply that if a trained dog makes a mistake, that this mistake is probably not an accident, but rather, a challenge to your authority. Perhaps this is why so many trainers seemingly enjoy correcting their dogs forever. I guess the real reason it is so difficult for us to share the Puppy Dog Training Method with other pet professionals, is because we take all the satisfaction out of "dealing with" and obstreperous dog. The problem is, that corrections do not teach new behavior.

Our technique actually deletes errors in your dogs thinking. It takes only a few moments of time to permanently cancel or delete a behavior. Correcting a behavior takes the entire lifetime of your dog. Make your choice, to solve behavior problems permanently in a few moments, or get the satisfaction of correcting your dogs behavior problems each time they occur, for the entire life of your dog. When you get tired of correcting, whining, nagging, and arguing, start reading this manual again, follow the directions, and change your values.
Change is difficult.
So let's go back to the prior example using the "other room" command. As you prepare to exit the room after having shown him the meaning of your request, create a sound just before your dog reaches the exit or doorway.
As always, instantly praise him. Continue to exit the room yourself, and if he continues to try to exit, create the sound behind him, and praise again. If he successfully exits the room against your command, simply repeat the original command "go in the other room good boy".

Of course, this will be treated as a new request, to be performed according to the progression of events as required. In other words, you must pay attention to the last instance in which sound was used, and try to insure that in the next instance, the sound comes from the appropriate source, i.e.: if you're dog went into the "other room" on his first request without sound, perhaps strictly as a coincidence, then, after you've tried to correct him from leaving, that instance would require the application of sound with your next request, which in actuality, would be his second request to "go in the other room good boy". .