The Reality of Dog Training

The recent explosion of dog training reality shows has impacted the dog training industry in several ways. The most important and deceptive component is how quickly behavior problems are resolved. Good dog training takes patience, consistency and commitment. Like any new skill, learning needs instruction, practice and more practice. The skill has to be learned, practiced in several environments, proofed for consistency and then integrated into everyday life. This I can assure you does not and cannot happen in 60 minutes. As stated on the APDT website by  industry leaders “You’ll see many TV dog training programs where very intense problems are seemingly ‘cured’ in just a few minutes by the change of body posture on the part of the owner or by uttering a particular syllable in a certain way. But in reality, long-term training and behavior problems are just not going to go away in minutes!”