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Dog Attacks In Puppy Classes Ruin Many Dogs!

Your dog trusts you as his leader to protect him from harm. All it takes is one dog attack for your dog to think that you are weak and will not protect him so he needs to take matters into his own hands to defend himself. Why do you think some people's dogs hate other dogs? Often it is because the dog has a bad owner who recklessly endangered it in puppy classes or at dog parks. What a dog trainer does with your dog can mean life or DEATH for your poor animal.

Many dogs have to be euthanized after taking puppy classes.

Puppy classes pander to the gullible. Most people want to be gentle with their dog. The deceit they use to sell puppy classes is the "The Gentle Method" and "Positive Reinforcement" are really bribing with food to manipulate the dog into performing cute pet tricks like sitting down. Most people don't realize that using food to teach "Sit" can make their dog aggressive.

Puppy classes promote dangerous behavior in dogs and do not teach owners how to safely manage or control their dog so the dog does not turn aggressive and have to be destroyed. Well meaning attempts by owners to train their dogs often leads to the premature death of their dog after enrolling in classes.

If you want your dog well trained at your home,

you need to train your dog at your home.

Training your dog at the park with food and saying, "sit , sit, sit!" and walking around in circles will make little difference in making your dog good at your home. And what class can simulate "real-life" distractions like visitors to your house or children?

People who are easily embarrassed or have anxiety, professionals, business people, busy people, people on tight schedules, children, teenagers, the elderly, those who are frail or have disabilities, or IF YOU NEED RESULTS "NOW!"

For behavior problems, group classes are totally ineffective and often make problems worse.

Dogs often get stressed-out in classes and become withdrawn, depressed or aggressive.

If you have a small dog or a puppy, there is a good chance it will get attacked by a larger dog. People in classes often can't control their dogs, which often slip out of their collars and attack other dogs in class.

Don't take our word for it, go watch a class and see dogs lunging and snapping at each other!

You want someone who can get your dog to obey your voice quickly without yelling, violence or bribing with food. Who wants a dog who doesn't listen unless you have treats?

Obedience is you asking your dog to do something and he does it because you say so, and not because the dog is going to get food or be punished. Obedience is telling children to clean their bedroom, just because you are the parent and you say so. Bribery is you paying them money after they refused to do what you asked.

Be forewarned, the words "Positive Reinforcement, Luring and Operant Conditioning." are code for bribing with food. Folks, don't waste your time and money on this nonsense and call us to learn how to train your dog fast without food or violent methods. The cruelest method is the one where the dog never gets trained and the dog no longer respects the owners and is biting people as a direct result of owners trying to train their dog with food. Many dogs trained with food using positive reinforcement techniques have to be euthanized.

Classes make dogs resistant to obedience by putting distraction first. The three phases of dog training are: #1 Learning, #2 Correction, AND THEN #3 Distraction. Classes often stress-out dogs and make them fearful or neurotic causing a host of undesirable behaviors at home such as self-mutilation and dominance.

PROBLEM DOG OWNERS DO GET SPECIAL ATTENTION IN CLASSES

• The trainer may ask you to leave.
• Most people feel humiliated and embarrassed in classes and quit
• All the other people in class may stare at you like you are mean or clueless.
• You may be ignored and treated unfairly.

Classes are ineffective for solving serious problems in the home.

A trainer cannot solve problems in the home when she has never been there. People's perspective, or what they say, is often the exact opposite of what a trainer sees at the home. People do not connect certain things to problems. Trainers always need to to see what is going on at the home for themselves to end troubles.

If you do not see dramatic results during the first lesson, you probably never will. You should expect dramatic results during the first lesson with a really good dog trainer. The dog trainers who get the best results get dogs to cooperate and don't ever have to punish or use food.

MYTHS EXPOSED

Dogs need both private lessons and classes.

False. When you hear this the trainer will start you at home and then tell you to take a few classes, knowing most people drop out and then he will not have to do the rest of your home lessons. Classes are synonymous with people quitting. 

Classes are a good place to socialize your dog.

False It sounds good though. Dogs learn to socialize with each other when they are six to eight weeks old in the litter, the Critical Period. If your dog obviously hates other dogs, or is very fearful of them, the aggression or fear very often gets much worse from well-meaning attempts to break this behavior in classes.

If you were scared of heights, would hanging you off the top of a tall building make you less or more fearful of falling? If you need to teach your dog good manners in public, remember the 3 phases of dog training--learning, correction, then distraction proofing. Classes have it backwards making it much much harder to train and socialize your dog.

Classes are a good place to teach your dog to behave around distractions.

False What classes have kids on razor scooters or families having picnics, real life distractions? If you want your dog to behave around kids on razor scooters, for example, you need to train your dog first, then introduce distractions.

Don't take our word for it, go watch a class and see dogs lunging and snapping at each other!

WHEN THEY SAY HOW LONG IT TAKES - It does not take a six weeks course to learn "sit", "down", "stay", "heel" and "come" on a leash. We teach all this and much more in one to three lessons, and teach off-leash training in 4 or 5 lessons!

The trainer should be able to get your dog to lay down during the first lesson. There is NO EXCUSE for not being able to do this, period. If it is a 140 pound Great Dane or a Shar-Pei that bites, a good trainer can get your dog to lay down the first lesson.

Don't endanger your dog or make it even more aggressive.

Choose a trainer who specialize in controlling undesirable dog behavior. The best dog trainers spend a lot more time with the owners than with the dogs and often have college degrees in Psychology or Counseling. Good trainers understand problems which may arise in the future and teach you to control them too.

Special Breed Trainers. . . Even if you do not have one.

Individual temperament, litter constellation, experience and genetics can account for a dog’s behavior more than what breed it is. Hence, a Poodle or a Cocker Spaniel can be much more difficult than a Pit Bull or a Doberman Pinscher. A good trainer is prepared to work with any dog breed, of any age and of any temperament. Be leery of trainers who specialize in puppies or typically "easy" dogs. Conversely, be leery of trainers who purport that their success with big dogs such as German Shepherds equates into being an expert with all dogs.

WAIT, IF YOU THINK CLASSES ARE BAD, READ ABOUT. . .

Board training: The myth perpetuated by their industry.

The dog may look good when you pick him up, but when you get home, he goes back to being his old self, or worse, because you didn't train him yourself.

Often, dogs come back from boarding shy and withdrawn because they were abused or attacked by dogs through the kennel fences. If your dog is a victim of this, it may be impossible to get him back to being a normal happy dog ever again.

And, boarding does virtually nothing to stop most problems like chewing, aggression, digging, bolting, housetraining, barking and play biting.

It gets VERY EXPENSIVE when you then have to hire someone else to teach you how to train the dog for yourself. Also, just think of how expensive it could be if your dog catches a disease (Kennel Cough, Dystemper) in the kennel and dies. There is no recourse against the kennel either.

MOST USE SHOCK COLLARS TO BRUTALIZE DOGS INTO OBEYING SO
THEY WILL PUT ON A SHOW FOR YOU WHEN YOU PICK THEM UP.

Don't say you weren't told. Only the naive and fools believe this is dog training. Call us before you spend BIG MONEY on kennel training! It's a no brainer. If you want your dog trained in your home you need to train him there--NOT IN A CAGE AT A RANCH.

LOOK AT HOW MUCH BOARD TRAINERS CHARGE FOR WHAT WE CAN GET YOUR DOG TO DO IN 2 OR 3 LESSONS AT YOUR HOME FOR PROBABLY HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS LESS WITHOUT LOCKING YOUR DOG IN A CAGE.

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