Animal behavior is driven by environmental design

If a dog is destroying furniture, the solution is rarely punishment; the solution is providing adequate physical exercise, mental enrichment, and altering the space. Modifying the surroundings works because Environment design is more reliable than willpower.¹

Footnotes

1. Grandin, T., & Johnson, C. (2009). Animals Make Us Human. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ↩