My "Technique"

The technique I use is quite simple.  Your Dogs already understand what I’m teaching.  It’s not my technique; it’s theirs. 
If you ask any other trainer, they’ll cite someone’s “method;” either clicker or command or operant conditioning.  All of these techniques are usually simple for the humans to understand but almost impossible for dogs to figure out. 

Thank about it; Do you want your dog not to bolt when the door opens or do you want your dog to sit and stay when this occurs? 

This may sound the same to you but to a dog, it is worlds apart!  In the first case, you’re in synch with your dog; you don’t want him to leave (a rule) and that’s the way that he as well us WE already understand.  In the latter, you’re telling him to stay put.  Fine.  He doesn’t know why but if he’s “trained,” depending on the relationship, to possibly do what you say. The next time, though, he still will have not learned why and you MUST repeat the command again… and again, for as long as you own the dog or until age catches up with him. This is not education as he is not truly learning what you want him to learn.

Most other trainers are teaching you what you already know!  Did you ever ask yourself why the results should be any different?  After all, if you taught your dog to sit and stay, say, with a treat and when someone opens the door he doesn’t respond properly, should a trainer be any more successful when they are teaching the dog the exact same thing?

Did you ever wonder why your dogs may be feisty and belligerent to you at home, but when they’re with other dogs they become just playful; submissive and/or angelic?  It’s because they know they can’t get away with the stuff they might have pulled with you.  They know the other dogs already understand what they might try and they know it won’t work! 

So, my “method” is what I’ve spent a lifetime understanding; how dogs truly think.  When explained, it’s simple for humans to learn and dogs have no learning curve as they already know!  These “methods” that other trainers employ may be ridiculously simple to you but impossible for dogs.

A lot of what I teach is educating you to understand your dog and communicate better, with the result of eliminating problems; not just avoiding them.  It certainly has nothing to do with distracting them to temporarily take their minds off what they wanted to do in the first place.

If you truly want to understand your dog better and finally solve behavior issues, whether they be a simple jumping or stealing problem to fighting and biting, the only method you should want to use is the one your dogs already know!

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