Mind Your Manners Dog Training of the Lakeshore

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Mind Your Manners Dog Training of the Lakeshore

Family-friendly, in-home positive reinforcement training to help understand and strengthen your relationship with your dog.

There certainly is a lot of ideology surrounding dog training, and every trainer has their own style. Mind Your Manners is dog training for the average person, grounded in the science of behavior, but using real-world applications. My goal is to help each owner cultivate a happy and healthy long-term relationship with their dog. My 20+ years of experience has taught me three things:
1. The same

technique does not work for every dog.
2. The same technique does not work for every owner.
3. The same technique does not work for every situation or environment. Creativity and flexibility are necessary to create the best training plan for the individual dog, owner, and situation!

12/04/2024

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07/28/2024

Random thought of the day on navigating behaviors that are the result of personality traits: This dog is high-drive and persistent. And it drives me nuts sometimes. It's the reason she was rehomed to begin with. But is "training" her to act calmly constructive or beneficial (to her)? Or does it just mask her personality to make her more palatable to others?

Certainly, there's a threshold at which a behavior can become detrimental to the individual's quality of life (especially if crossing that threshold results in losing one's home), and in some cases, redirecting those traits into a more controlled or constructive behavioral output is necessary for safety...

But perhaps we humans can find ways to expand our definition of "acceptable" behavior. In my case, if I "train" Maggie to be "calm" (void of behaviors) and "entertain herself" (become asocial), she is no longer the amazingly connected, interactive, and athletic dog that she is naturally. And that is ultimately a disservice to both of us.

So, long story short, I need to meet her where she is. Embrace what makes her uniquely her. Even if that challenges me to expand my version of what I think a dog "should" be.

Just like I try to do with my children. 😉

02/28/2024

Kirk Park's Dog Beach is BACK! 🎉

The beach changed it's hours dramatically during the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Holland, MI
49424

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+12698387794

Website

http://www.mindyourmannersdogs.com/

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