Training Methods

“Make the Right thing easy, and the Wrong thing hard”

• Dylan uses Balanced Training, this means using rewards to encourage behaviors and consequences to discourage them. This is the easiest and quickest way to train a dog because it approaches their behaviors in a way that discourages bad behavior, and encourages good behavior, while still allowing the dog to make the choice. You cannot train most dogs by force or rewards alone, because as soon as you are out of the environment, the dog will not uphold the training. By instead teaching the dog to choose the right thing, you are slowly conditioning the dog to make the right behavioral choices every time, regardless of owner presence

• There will be use of different tools depending on the dog and training needs, But the standard is usually using a collar with a slip loop (known as a martingale collar) allowing the collar to provide even pressure and not risk damage to the dog’s windpipe and preventing the dog backing up to escape the leash. The use of a prong collar or e-collar may be necessary, if the dog is not receptive to other methods or needs to be reliable off-leash, but these cause NO HARM if used correctly, feel free to ask for a demonstration on yourself of how, when used correctly, they cause discomfort but no pain

• This is so effective because Dylan uses the same corrections and responses that other dogs would give to regulate the behavior of a new dog in the group, and it is really important, especially for unsocialized dogs, to communicate like another dog would, instead of expecting them to understand human communications. Dylan has spent hundreds of hours studying dog social behaviors with each other, and his methods allow you to learn to “speak dog language” instead of trying to make your dog learn human language just by repetition