We know dogs need to be acclimated to doing their work in new places, but in this letter Andrea Kiss restates it from the dog's point of view. If dogs really do associate what they learn with the place they learn it, then it makes sense that in a new place the behavior disappears. Instead of being frustrated—"But he does it perfectly at home…" you might expect to "re-teach" any new behavior a few times in various environments. (In my own observation, even just changing direction in your own living room, facing the dog north, east, south, and west, "reteaching" the behavior four times, can make it easier to take that behavior on the road. KP)
