Foundations of or the Lack of Foundations of Training

Two Ways to Train—Pick One

Let’s establish two, basic foundations of training when it comes to dogs.^[1] The two approaches are:

1. owners jump right into training,
2. or owners assess their histories and their dog’s history before jumping into training.

In a little bit more detail, this means:

1. there’s no assessing of nor is there the discussion of the different and possible foundations on which the following training will be done, nor is the dog’s historical background ever uncovered, analyzed, assessed, or addressed in the course of the training, A plethora of helpful and harmful information is ignored. This is a problematic approach.
2. A foundation-based approach on which training proceeds.

Another way of saying the same thing is that:

1. The first way, owners and trainers just dive in. Most trainers dive in, resulting in an approach that is generally less effective than one that is foundation-based and which honors a dog’s history.
2. In the second way, there’s a conscious awareness of the dog nature and an establishing of the dog’s nature and history before any training begins.

Anecdotal proof backs up these claims.

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^[1]Noteworthy is the fact that “dog training” purposely was not used, because it’s not dog training—it’s peopletraining. It’s (human) dog (owner) training.