Puggles & Pitties

We’ve posted about positive reinforcement training before, and received many, MANY hateful comments in response. We didn’t approve any of those comments, because we’ve come to realize there are some people to whom the message will never reach.

Today we came across the following blog post, which we think beautifully explains the reasoning for crossing over to positive training.  We hope you enjoy it and get as much out of it as we did.

Correct me If I’m Wrong? I Have a Better Idea….

As anyone who has either read my book or knows me in person is aware of, I am a positive reinforcement trainer. That wasn’t always the case. I started my training knowledge with the more old fashioned techniques now known inaccurately as “balanced training”…

About the author:

Debby McMullen began training dogs and their owners in 1998 at the Animal Friends shelter in Pittsburgh, PA. In 2002 she started her dog training and behavior consulting business, Pawsitive Reactions, LLC. She is a founding member of the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC), a Certified Dog Behavior Consultant (CDBC), and a long time professional member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT). A member of the Doberman Pinscher Club of America, she is also the founder and president of Damon’s Den Doberman Rescue of Western PA. She lives with four personal dogs as well as a rotating crew of rescues and would have it no other way.