Getting Assistance to Train Your Own Dog

Hello Everyone


I am starting this blog in order to talk about training your own dog and some of the pitfalls and successes that can come out of it. For the past five years, I have been training service dogs and have been contacted by many people who have run into issues. Getting a trained dog is expensive and many times there is no funding, many people view training their own dog as more affordable. However, the one thing that they do not take into account is that there is a 75% chance a dog will fail, and this is with professional trainers, the odds of a dog failing out increases significantly with self trained dogs, not just due to incorrect training, but also people just giving up on them or working them past their limits. Consulting and working with a trainer will provide good training techniques, assist in knowledge about dog behaviour and provide feedback on whether training should continue.