1. Avoid participating in group training obedient sessions. All dogs are unique, having different temperaments, personalities and breed specific traits. The one-size-fits-all approach implies that all dogs learn the same and consequently will comply the same when being given a command. For example, many Great Danes have difficulty with the "Sit" command and must be allowed lee-way or given alternative instructions to master this directive.
Please train your dog, one-on-one, in the real world, not in a pet food warehouse.
If consumers continue to patronize big-box-pet-store dog training programs, quality trainers (professional who care about enhancing and then maintaining the human-canine bond) will cease to exist.
2. Men and women acquire, interact and then train their dogs with different objectives and goals. Try telling that to a big-box-pet-store dog trainer who has been conditioned to follow a preset instructional guide where consumers, like their dogs, are expected to adhere to the one-size-fits-all approach.
Women have been disenfranchised for years by the professional dog training community; especially when they are instructed to act like a "leader of their pack", or "Alpha dog". Dogs are scavengers and consequently have no need for a leader - Alpha or otherwise.
Mother dogs does it all without the help of a "daddy dog", so the questions begs to be asked, "Why aren't women being asked to act more like a mother dog?"
3. Most dog foods are junk. Avoid purchasing dog foods with the following ingredients: Meat by-products, Meat meal, Beet Pulp, BHT, BHA, Ethoxyquin, Propylene Glycol (now found in many products consumed by humans), Dyes, Sodium Nitrate, Corn, Corn Gluten Meal, Soy, and any Kibble/Burger-shaped products.
I have been telling this to dog owners for more than 18-years, but yesterday, during an in-home consultation, I had to convince my client to discard all her dog food and treats (something her veterinarian should have recommended long before my arrival on-the-seen.)
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