by BARKS from the Guild | Sep 13, 2018 | Advocacy, Business & Consulting
Official Pet Professional Guild (PPG) response to the announcement (September 11, 2018) by the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC), the Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT), and the Certification Council for Professional Dog...
by Daniel Antolec | Sep 15, 2015 | Advocacy, Pet Guardians, Training
As a professional force-free dog trainer I often hear dog owners use the term “punishment” and understand it from their perspective as a word in common use. Webster’s dictionary: 1 the act of punishing; 2 a. a suffering of pain...
by Eileen Anderson | Sep 14, 2015 | Training
What happens when someone shares a “success” story about training with aversives? Here’s my response to a commenter who did so on one of my previous posts. A Parable Once there was a woman named Reva who had a serious...
