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

As a dog trainer, I find my job is both freshly challenging with each new case, and simultaneously, somewhat predictable. While each individual dog and dog guardian are unique and different, similar issues tend to arise in households across the board. Such as, Our dog goes crazy when anyone comes to the door; our dog jumps on my kids and knocks them down; our dog runs the other way when we call him to come inside at night. Do any of these scenarios sound familiar? I believe w