dan dog - which forms of dog training can produce reliable results?

Now can rewards based training produce reliable results? Definitely, in fact most of today’s top obedience dogs around the world are clicker trained. So dan dog  clicker training in its purest form uses 100% rewards based methods.

The use of force or corrections has no place in clicker training. That these top obedience dogs can perform reliably in obedience all around the world is proof that clicker training works and that the use of force in dog training is totally not necessary.

Now you might ask me is clicker training superior to compulsion based training. It is our opinion that in the hands of right trainers, both methods are effective and can produce excellent obedience dogs. However when it comes to administering corrections, some trainers can go overboard, using increasingly higher levels or corrections to train their dogs.

 They may progress from a buckle collar to a choke chain, pinch collar and eventually even an electronic collar. Some may even resort to using throw chains to speed up their dog’s performance. While such method does work, they tend to produce dogs that perform not because they love to but rather because it is compulsory.

Reliable as they are, such dogs tend to look rather mechanical in the ring. Problems can also arise if compulsion trained dogs are entered into competitions too early. In the ring, handlers are not permitted to correct dogs.

If these dogs are not yet ready for the ring, they will invariably make mistakes in the ring and realize that in the ring, their mistake is not corrected. The end result- a ring wise dog, a dog that performs wonderfully well outside the ring but once in the ring, everything falls apart.

Clicker training in our opinion produces dogs that perform because they choose to and not because they have to. As a result, they are very enthusiastic and it will show in their performance in the ring. Clicker training is also more humane and most importantly, your dog will love it.

We are currently giving away free dan dog  clicker training lessons, since our goal is simply to promote clicker training, so that people in the world over will have an effective alternative to train their dogs humanely. If you are interested, then you can click here.