Choosing a Dog Trainer from The Doodle Pro
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Corinne Gearhart, who is the oracle for all things Doodle, on her Doodle Pro podcast. The tide has been shifting about Doodles. Trainers used to be more wary about the energy level, and the purebred dog world looked down on hybrids. Now, trainers have come around. Doodles […]
The Mop Up Squad
There is a trope—long disproven and actually dangerous for dogs—among those trainers who continue to use aversive stimuli in dog training: they say that they are the only ones who can train aggressive dogs. They regularly accuse us positive reinforcement trainers of allowing dogs to needlessly die when their antagonistic and outdated training techniques could […]