TRAINING METHODS

By teaching the dog various words and their meanings, a channel of communication is opened between human and dog. We are essentially teaching your dog English as a second language.  We need to teach our dogs a way in which we can communicate effectively, and building a working vocabulary will accomplish this in the most efficient manner.

The type of training we use is called reward-based training. We do not shove the dog into position, and do not use choke, pinch, or shock collars. We teach you dog in a way that causes your dog to want to do what we ask.  As with anything we do, the more we want to do something, the better we do in that endeavor.

The only correction we do use is if your dog does nor do what we want, the dog does not get what he/she wants.  This is certainly something to be avoided, but not something that will intimidate you dog.  This will actually cause your dog to want to work harder for you. In a way, what we do is to teach your dog how to get what he/she wants – by doing what we want.  In this way both dog and human are on the same page and working together.

Other correction type training methods simply punish your dog for undesired behaviors.  They do not teach your dog what you want him/her to do, but rather what and who to avoid.