Field notes · Dog training in Angier & Raleigh, NC
Should I stop my dog before he misbehaves?
Not always. You cannot correct something that never happens. He needs real room to get it wrong, or there is nothing to teach against.
In the trainer's words
Maximum five or six more repetitions - as long as at least two of those give me an opportunity to do a major correction, because he needs to make the choice, the bad choice, in order for me to punish it.Kelton, Head Trainer, Angier K9 Consultants
Seen with 1 dog: Reaper
2 recorded moments, each one linked to the exact second it happens in a full training session published unedited. Trainers call this he has to be allowed to get it wrong.
31:51
He needs to make choices. We give him a choice point.
47:20
"Complete stranger dogs, without his hair even going up" — and he has to make the bad choice for me to punish it
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