RDL is so simple
RDL works, but its explanation is so weird nobody would pay for it. It’s every owner’s dilemma.
Doug Parker Is The “DOuGTrainer™”
“We’ve lost sight of how to raise, relate to, and be leaders for our #dogs. We’re labeling their behaviors and paying more attention to the labels than paying attention to their behaviors.” This is gold. —Nicola Cataldo
The DOuGTrainer’s™ Training, RDL, Is Holistic
In the simplest model, approaches can be based on Nature or YouTube. Where Nature is holistic—YouTube is not. Basing an approach on Nature, you'll win. Basing an approach on YouTube, it'll fail. Reflective Dog Leadership, RDL, is built on Nature and Nature’s evidence—not collected, disparate, YouTube, human opinion.
Educate the Human—Not ‘Train the Dog’
Surprise! It's not ‘#dogtraining,’ it's people education or #peopletraining. The elephant in the room is that you consciously, or unconsciously choose… or not.
What Training Is the Best Training?
“The most effective training”—not “the quickest training”—is the best training. The quickest training will never be best. The current culture's “quick fix” mentality is a point of failure that gets dismissed and overlooked in all cases. That's bad.
Communication
“A dog's behavior is its communication,” which is genuine only at the moment of its behavior. The “in-the-moment” portion is necessarily included in its message. Its behavior is its message. That's why “our explanation of what they did” isn't ever totally right.
No Collars, No Clickers, No Treats, No Meds
Voluntary submission can never be coerced. Coercive collars are a point of failure.
When Is My Dog Relaxed?
When you see their cold, wet nose, and relaxed, open mouth breathing.
The Impossible-to-explain Training Paradox, Explained
Every moment, Nature addresses 100,000+ things: humans can best address a paltry 1 thing each moment, and incompletely at that.
So in fifteen moments—in perhaps as many seconds—a million and a half things have been addressed by Nature, while humans struggle to explain a solitary one. Teachers and trainers get tasked to teach each client these things while keeping up with Nature's pace.
Clients whose reveiws say, “It's hard to put into words, but it works” precisely put the impossible into words with those words. The levels of awareness and the levels of consciousness that get uncovered and transcended are what makes Nature work, which is what makes DOuGTrainer’s™ Reflective Dog Leadership, RDL, work.
“Educate the Human.”
It’s not “Train the Dog.”
The Culture Is Learning to Be More Patient
It's an Awareness Thing
Positive, non-aggressive, mobile training, is usually provided at your home for your convenience, in Henderson, Las Vegas, and anywhere around the world—I train live, across the globe, through remote video, using Jitsi, Google, or Zoom. Contact The DOuGTrainer™ at 725 . 222 . 3686. choose Contact from the menu, or go to the Contact page.
It’s So Simple It Complicates Everything
There needs to be an understanding about how training happens.
If you think it’s one thing
while I think it’s something else,
while Nature knows better,
but we don’t talk about it, there’s the disconnect.
Nature’s always wins—never the human. To every human thinking they’re smarter than Nature, well, “Houston, we’ve had a problem.”