Sit Stay Obey – Training the humane way

Sheila Bertelsen

What Dog Training Taught me about Parenting and Partnership

Whatever you feed, not only lives, but grows.  Whatever you starve, dies. While positive reinforcement may look like just feeding dogs treats, it’s much more than that. It’s complex, because if positive reinforcement isn’t done correctly, it can actually be encouraging/enabling the very behaviors that are trying to be extinguished. We are marking behavior we

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Patience Please

Nothing stifles learning or a spirit more than the fear of making mistakes. Even with positive reinforcement training, if dogs are not getting a click/reward, you will see some start doing restless displacement behaviors like shifting or scratching, etc. There will often be looks of desperation in their pleading eyes. At that point, I am

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No Regrets

To put it simply, I teach owners to train in a way that they will have no regrets.

If somebody tells me, “We hit our dog and it worked,” I simply reply with the foundation of all dog training:

“A dog will always continue to do what gives it the greatest benefit.”

Of course it is to its benefit to not get hurt.

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