Dogs are family

My dogs have taught me so much. Tabby is happy all the time and loves everyone. She’s taught me so much about love and acceptance. My dogs have also taught me about forgiveness. Most of them have came from less than favorable situations but yet they still love, trust and enjoy life. I’ve been researching how to care for them better and inevitably becoming a better dog guardian. All this education inspired me to go to school to be a canine specialist. Not only that, I decided to start learning how to train my dogs. I wanted to learn about every aspect of my dogs life and care. Dogs have emotional needs, physical needs and basic needs. Training is a necessity not a specialty. For a long time, I thought that only smart, inventive people could train dogs. That is definitely not the case. Everyone can and should train their dogs. It might not be easy but it is definitely worth it and the payoff is a measurable. That is a reflection of the way I have stuck with training and taught her the skills to be a better canine citizen. Well, there’s only one thing to do–get on the ball and get things going in a better direction, helping her to be better. Not only that, she loves to learn so I’m sure it’s going to be fun for her. You do not have to use aversive negative punishment techniques to train a dog. I am a firm believer in positive training. I feel like it is successful and useful.