Why training and therapy work compliment each other.
I am Nationally accredited in dog behaviour and training but I believe that training is not all there is to having a social, well mannered dog. A dogs’ understanding of what we are asking and also its emotions are what causes it to behave the way it does, so training your dog is not just about stopping it from doing something you don’t want - like excessive barking - its about communicating effectively and changing the emotion the dog is feeling that causes that behaviour in the first place. If we don’t change its emotional, another undesirable behaviour will come out again at some point.
Dogs are like us, and many suffer physical pain and discomfort. If they are in pain, they get grumpy and their behaviour can deteriorate. Being pack animals, they are experts at hiding their pain until it becomes too severe. This is why it is so important to be able to assess an animal for pain and discomfort in their body that may be influencing their behaviour as well as having the knowledge and experience to train it.