About Ken and His Training Methods
I was raised on a small farm in northern Arizona, and from an early age I have been around many different kinds of animals. Bandit became my first dog, a Beagle mix, when I was four years old. At the age of 15, I started helping in the raising, training and breeding of our families' Brittany Spaniels. I don't remember using much negative reinforcement with them. The closest thing to negative reinforcment might have been the banging of pots and pans over their heads while they were eating. But this was to condition them to be good gun dogs and to get accustom to loud noises.
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Presently, my wife and I have two Labrador Retrievers, one of which is a rescue. At one time we had three generations of Chocolate Labradors. Although we are retired AKC breeders, our last litter, could sit/stay on command and use a doggie door at the age of eight weeks.
Since I have witnessed the consequences of positive reinforcement, positive training methods are used in all of my classes.
I also have found that all negative training methods can most often be easily tranformed into positive training, resulting in positive results.
Remember that is never to early or to late to train your dog! And that goes even if they have had another type of training.
Your Dog is begging to be trained!