16/01/2022
Why positive only training fails and balanced training has to pick up the pieces
“YIN YANG is a Chinese philosophical concept that describes how obviously opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another”
To train a dog is to train them how to react correctly to positive AND negative situations in life.
There is no dog trainer that will practice the same methods because there is no dog owner that will live the same life; but my best advice is to find someone who can put your dog into comfortable AND uncomfortable situations and give them the inside voice to make the right decision regardless of how they feel.
excitement, joy, stress, pressure, control, affection, arousal, pain, love, boredom and engagement; life’s lessons to teach us what to do and what not to do… without it any animal becomes their own detriment, but to learn to absorb it and master it leads to nothing but harmonious bliss