What IS "Dog Training", Anyway?
Ask 100 trainers this question, and you'll get 100 different answers. I've always found the term somewhat limiting. It sort of implies a one-way trajectory of information, traveling from person to animal. As though the animal is a receptacle into which "training goes", and after which point we expect the animal's behavior to have changed in some particular way. Sometimes I like to think of it as "dog teaching". But this still connotes a "bestowing of knowledge" from only one