As a professional dog trainer and dog behavior counselor, I can easily determine the best steps to take to get a desired behavior with a dog. I quickly can visualize the best dog training program and the quickest route to longevity in a behavior. I know how to utilize great management skills until the desired behavior is achieved and has become a reliable new habit for a dog. I know what dog behavior is risky, unsafe or detrimental to the well-being of a dog. I will ensure a dogs success to the best of my ability and will likely see good results quickly and continue the training and spot check throughout a dogs life to keep the behavior strong and reliable.
In other words, I know how to successfully train dogs, change behavior problems, and have a safe dog. Why then arent all the dogs who have come through classes or private training with me as successful?
One reason is that I have many years under my belt training dogs. Not just training owners and their dogs, but actual hands on experience working and training individual dogs. Which means I have good timing. I can see in the future a potential behavior problem so I am pro-active in my training to prevent this problem. I reinforce quickly and often.
These are some of the skills that dog parents have to learn. It takes time, patience, and consistency. Dogs (and humans for that matter) are learning ALL the time. There are not training times and non-training times. Its all training time. They are always learning. I repeat, they are always learning.
So if you are ready to learn how to achieve success in dog training, contact me today. I offer local services, travel to you across the US and offer phone/email dog training too.
But the biggest issue I see with the likeliness of a dogs success isnt the timing of their human, but owner compliance. I can train dogs. But its the owner who is in the drivers seat when it comes to their dogs behavior. There are many reasons (I can only imagine how many you can come up with) why a dog owner may not actively work with their dog. But the bottom line is, if a behavior is going to change, the work has to get done. If an owner does not put the effort or time into training or a dog behavior modification program, there will not be change, for the better. And in most cases, the behavior will actually get WORSE.
It can be very tough raising a puppy or adolescent dog. It can even be tougher living with a dog with
anxiety or aggression issues. But there is hope! When clients are actively working with their dogs on the lessons I give them they are tickled with the results. Positive training is effective with the right coach.......but you do have to do the work to get the results. Believe me, if I could waive a magic wand, or show you a quicker route to long term success, I would! I would be a very rich woman if I had those tools. And if those tools existed, there would not be dogs in shelters.