There is a type of dog trainer I think you should be aware of. You can run across them in all formats, with programs and titles throughout the decades: books, magazines, seminars, events, social media, and/or TV.
They all share a few basic traits:
1. They use various media to stimulate an interest in a promoting a narrow, gimmicky version of dog training. They are charismatic in their own way, whether by the way they can craft their words, to the media presentations they sell.
2. They don't have the commitment and knowledge to do the hands-on training to know what actually works. They don't grind it out with sufficient dogs to establish a true expertise.
3. The stuff they say sounds good in their heads, but that's as far as it really goes. The descriptions can sound plausible if you are not an animal-experienced person.
4.) They don’t really like training dogs. Instead, they prefer theorizing and pontificating. Thus, some of their stuff works and some doesn't; some might be good and some might be harmful or even dangerous. And that is why they never demonstrate any more than puppy training levels of performance with any dog, and many methods they use can result in only temporary fixes. Or if they are competitors, they can only excel in the ring, and we aren’t privy to the side effects on their dogs, inside or outside the ring. In some cases, they aren’t the ones who actually trained “their” dogs; someone else did it for them.
5.) They make more money talking about dogs than from working with dogs.
Are they real dog trainers? No.
Plan accordingly.
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