Basic obedience begins with positive reinforcement, with limited distractions, as trainer and dog develop mutual trust and respect.
Verbal and leash corrections with slip or pinch collar are added as the dog understands and works commands well, moving toward distractions such as barking dogs, strange people, people with dogs and other real-world situations.
Treats are limited to very young dogs as needed, or dogs needing extra motivation.
Once basic obedience is established, we schedule at least two private sessions with owner and family members to teach hand signals and verbal commands, as well as teaching the owner how to reinforce the pet’s training.
Advanced obedience is for off-leash training, starting on a 15-30 ft. line, using an E-collar (by owner’s permission), which gives you complete control of your dog with no leash at all, where the E-collar acts as an invisible leash.
The substitution of e-collar corrections for the leash corrections is done gently and gradually, avoiding any trauma period where the dog doesn’t understand what is being asked of him.
On “graduation day”, we perform the “Rule on Proving a Dog in Real-World Situations” with 5 distractions: children, other dogs, people with dogs, barking dogs and moving vehicles.
Retrieval training for gun dogs is done with E-collar also, after basic obedience training and evidence of retrieval aptitude. Dogs are generally force-fetched, but the need for this is determined during evaluation.
No training is complete until Owner is comfortable handling the dog –understanding how and when to use corrections to reinforce and increase the dog’s ability to perform its trained commands.
All types of training include two private sessions at the end of the training.
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K9 Manners of Texas
23618 Willow Switch, Spring, TX. 77389
United States
(713) 201-7527
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