

We teach you how to satisfy those drives, as well. You cannot forget the drives, because they still exist. Teaching a dog to control its impulse to chase, jump, hunt, or react negatively is what we do. It is when their drives outweigh their intellect, causing them to be impulsive, they appear to be bad dogs. We call this **net-POSITIVE** training because we focus on the positive. Teaching proper interruption, and proper praise is part of the process. Interrupting your dog's inherent drives followed by proper praise yields the best results. We do not believe a relationship is forced or bribed into existence. A dog that only works for a treat quickly learns that it only has to listen when treats are being given so we eliminate the treats and transition to only using praise as a reward. Our training will not be based on using food to illicit behaviors, although we will use some food rewards to build a relationship with your dog, and to shape certain behaviors. We prefer to teach our dog owners how to build a good relationship based on trust and respect. We are not an advocate for using e-collars for training obedience. Aversive training and “pure” positive treat based approaches tend to only last as long as the aversive or the food rewards are available – we prefer you live the “dog life”, which doesn’t mean managing your dog all the time, it means creating a thinking dog! Our **net-POSITIVE** system is proven, effective and is based in true science, psychology, and a common sense approach to building a relationship that lasts. There are others who have hyper-evolved, and believe that just using treats will provide the results you seek. There are a lot of trainers who have not evolved, and continue to use the most archaic methods of dog training. It is also one of the most complex and misunderstood components of dog training. The most important question we are asked is about our methods.

We have years of experience to help you fix common problems, including behavior modification for the toughest issues. Our team of professional trainers is here to help.
