You have found The Clever Canine, a Bellingham based positive dog training company looking forward to helping you form a more positive relationship with your clever canine.
The Clever Canine is devoted to making dog training a fun experience for both dogs and people. We use reward-based training principles. A wide range of incentives, chosen especially for your dog, can include food, toys, enjoyable activities, praise and petting. The advantages of reward-based training will quickly become apparent: training sessions are enjoyable for both you and your pet, and increase the bond between you while improving the behaviors you want to work on.
Since positive behavior is constantly and consistently being enforced, you will spend more time encouraging the behavior you want to see and less time correcting or punishing your pet. Other training methods still rely on choke collars, shock collars, ear-pinching or other physical corrections. With the Clever Canine you will be teaching your dog to behave appropriately and respectfully by controlling the resources that your dog is most interested in. The food rewards you use are not “bribes”, but rather a valuable tool that helps you communicate to your dog what behavior you would like to see more of.
These methods are based in the scientific principles first shown by Pavlov and later by Skinner. The first having given us the concept known as Classical Conditioning and the later having given us The Four Quadrants of Learning Theory. Modern dog trainers are now well versed in these principles and prepared to help teach them to owners in an effort to create more positive experiences for dogs.