5 Things Trainers DON'T Tell You (simplify trg!)
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How do I get rid of unwanted and teach wanted behaviors? (Every dog owner struggles with this question - even trainers.)
Why does it take so much time, energy, and patience to see changes?
And why do unwanted behaviors keep happening anyway, no matter how much training you are doing?!
This short, simple booklet tells you five facts that will answer these questions and help you create realistic goals that get faster results TODAY.
The five facts in this booklet are rough generalizations, but knowing them will help you kick-start your training today. Not knowing these facts results in unrealistic expectations, unnecessary frustrations, inattainable goals, and never-ending cycles of what I call TSRR: train, success, regress, repeat. Whether your canine family member is a new or old housemate, these five truths will help you learn what you need to know about the reality of dogs as domesticated pets. This information is the difference between successful training and TSSR.
This guide will help you:
Understand why what you are doing is not working when you want and need it to most
Understand your dog's unique needs and wants, and how they are producing unwanted behaviors
Understand that dogs are more like us than we think and that the answers already exist in what we are doing and saying in our daily routines, habits, and patterns
Use this information to create achievable goals
Just one example: If you don't know the full picture of why your dog barks at hearing neighbors in the hallway, you cannot address the sound, redirect the behavior, and train your dog to do something else INSTEAD of barking. You need all the information to create a program that will work. "I want my dog to stop barking at hearing neighbors in the hallway" is only part of the story. The good news is that "all of the information" can be broken down into the five simple facts in this booklet. Once we are all on the same page about these five facts, we customize your training plan to your and your dog's unique needs/wants, and lifestyle. This booklet provides the foundation of the training you can build on top of it.
From here, we weave "training" into the daily habits, routines, and patterns of everything you are already doing and saying to teach your dog what not to do and what to do instead, in any/every given situation. My methods use what you are already doing to teach. No extra time, energy, or patience required.