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DOG TRAINING IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK!
Know Better Dogs is a place for learning where both you and your dog will enjoy the lessons. Our lessons are designed to be easy to understand and simple to implement.
You will learn how to use your new skills in your home life to help your dog become more compliant and easy to deal with. Taking classes at Know Better Dogs can only improve your communication with your dog. The dog will benefit from the one on one time you spend in class and you will benefit from knowing how to get compliance in your home environment.
It is important for you to take the lead in your puppies life. Training should begin as soon as you get your pup. Our informal Puppy Social Night is a great place to start to teach him you are the leader of his new pack. The one who says when to play and when to settle down. Our Puppy Socials will prepare your new addition for a lifetime of learning and partnership with you.
We will show you how your actions affect your dog’s actions. If needed small changes on your part can mean big changes in the dog. Its not always the dogs fault when things go wrong, sometimes its just miscommunication between two species. Dogs are in some ways similar to humans and as such we often believe they are the same. It is when dogs are treated as children that things go wrong. Dogs don’t have the same understanding of the human language as kids do. Rather than understand the meaning of words they pair the word with an action. Dogs do understand what works for them and what doesn’t, this is what makes operant conditioning my choice of training methods. Dogs are perfectly willing to learn, they just need to see what’s in it for them. With operant conditioning the dog learns his behaviour controls his environment i.e. He does good things and good things happen to him. Its actually very simple to build a nice responsive pet, once you start implementing this system at home. Training is a fun and rewarding at any age and we look forward to being there for you and your dog from puppy hood till old age.