The Role of Training in Dog Training

Don't have preconceptions about who that individual dog is or can be. I'm not a big advocate of just training for training. Who cares if your dog can sit on command? I don't care. The reason you teach something like that is on the way to forming a good relationship with your dog. We and our dogs come closer to being a benign gang than a pack. A gang of two or three or four, or we are a family. Undesired behaviour gets no attention, no food, nothing that the dog wants from you. Good behaviour gets it. That's an integral part of how a young child learns how to be a person. And that's how the dog...