Compassionate, POSITIVE DOG TRAINING makes you and your dog partners in the learning process. Positive training helps your dog become a happy, trusting, responsive companion, and helps you provide an environment in which your dog feels safe, protected and understood. WHAT DO WE MEAN BY POSITIVE TRAINING? Dogs, like people, learn best when they are treated gently and trained without using methods that intimidate, suppress or scare them. Positive training makes use of the simple premise that behaviors that are rewarded will increase. Over time, these reinforced behaviors will become habitual. Rather than stopping bad behaviors, you will learn to prevent behaviors you do not want your dog to practice and substitute behaviors that are compatible with your lifestyle. Your dog will be y