The Great Dog Trainer Shootout… Who’s the best, and how you can save hundreds

Want to know how to save literally hundreds of dollars training your dog?

The other day a lady emailed me from Kentucky in the States, her dog had been a jumper, a barker, was becoming a little aggressive when people came to the front door. In fact her dog had all sorts of issues by the sounds of things and she was starting to give up hope. As with so many people that I work with she explained how she had done everything that she thought she was supposed to, taking her puppy to puppy school, dog training and basic obedience and had now paid for 3 different professional trainers to come and work with her and her dog with no success. Sound familiar?

So why was she emailing me? Well the email was a “Thank you for saving her dog” email, as she put it. The whole situation put a huge smile on my face as she explained how she had accidentally stumbled across my video website TheOnlineDogTrainer, joined up and followed the video course for a whole week with stunning results.

As she explained, she was not really somebody who went for an online solution but this experience had really opened her eyes to the opportunity of what is available.

Her emailed prompted this post!

I decided it would be interesting to compare online training (such as my website) with a conventional dog trainer who works with you in person. Here are the 4 key areas that I have decided to measure and compare the two.

1. Cost – the total cost that you will end up paying
2. Solution – the quality of the solution provided and how effective it was
3. Usability – how convenient, easy and time consuming the training was
4. Back up – ongoing support quality, usefulness and cost

So just to reiterate, in this comparison I am comparing a typical dog trainer (of course they all vary) with my website TheOnlineDogTrainer

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Become The Pack Leader

Of all the questions that people ask “how to become the pack leader” is the big one! This is by far the most important question how to convince your dog that you are the person in charge. Think of the pack leader as the decision maker - where you should go on the walk, how to behave in different situations and how to respond to all the strange things that are out there.

When you understand how dogs packs work you soon realize the importance, that pack leader makes all the decisions. If you leave it up to your dog then there a big chance that your dog is going to get something’s very wrong and make a mistake!

In order to understand how to become the pack leader you must first recognize that the following means nothing to a dog….

What car you drive, the size of your house, the money you earn or the fact that you speak languages! Your dog would happily swap all of that for a nice snack!

Asking your dog to sit before her dinner falls a long way short of what you need to be achieving to become the pack leader and walking through doorways is only necessary when your dog is on the lead.

Lastly - dominating your dog is certainly not the way to become the pack leader in fact this can back fire badly on you later on if you teach your dog that physical strength is what it is all about. Whilst you may force your dog into submission it will not be convincing your dogs mind that you are worthy of the position and that you should become the pack leader only that you are a bit of a bully.
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So how do you become the pack leader? All dogs worldwide, regardless of breed use the same ways to check to establish the pack leader. The best way to learn about how to put it into practice is to watch it being done on video as I have done through one of the video based web sites. The important areas to take control in are the following:

The pack leader will be in total calm control when your dog barks and alerts you to danger. This includes anything that your dog may perceive as dangerous and barks at in and around the property
On the walk your dog should not pull you at a single stage, even the beginning! Learning to walk your dog properly can only really be learnt through video as I have found out!
If you are the pack leader then your dog should be able to relax and switch off completely inside the house. If your dog is always switched on most of the time and can’t relax then that is your dog on pack leader duty!
Getting your dog to switch off is directly connected to how you meet and greet your dog after your return home. You need to watch it on video it is so subtle but it is the difference between being the pack leader or the follower.
Lastly, feeding your dog correctly will establish who is the pack leader and there is much more to it than asking your dog to sit! Also if you have a dog that is “not food motivated” then you may be in for a surprise!
There is one site that shows you – using video – exactly how to become the pack leader and how crucial it is to changing any behavioral issue.

If you want to understand more about this topic or see the videos that explain everything then simply take a look at The Online Dog Trainer here