DOG OBEDIENCE CLASSES

Dog Training Phoenix

Dog Obedience Classes, are they right for your dog? Dog Obedience Classes,  did you know this is the worst way to train your dog?

Dog Obedience Classes are typically the worst way to train your dog. Imagine a dog obedience class that has say 8 dogs with little to no training. Now imagine that those same dog obedience classes have say 8 unskilled and untrained owners. What you end up with typically are dog obedience classes that are an hour long of chaos and distractions with very little learning taking place.

About 70% of the dogs we train here at Phoenix Dog Training have been to previous dog obedience classes. What I typically here from clients is, “We went to a pet chain store for group training. “Fido” still wont listen, especially when there are distractions and things in the environment are excitable. When new people come over to the house, the dog is hyper and jumping and wont listen. I hear that there dog pulls like crazy on the leash, or is reactive towards other dogs or aggressive on leash.

WHY DOG OBEDIENCE CLASSES OFTEN ARE THE WORST PLACE TO TRAIN YOUR DOG

Many dogs after attending dog obedience classes have behavior problems at home that have never been fully addressed and corrected like: stopping a dog from jumping, how to potty train a dog, stopping unwanted dog barking, preventing and correcting dogs from chewing destructively, how to stop puppy biting, how to crate train a puppy or a dog; the list can go on forever with any dog behavior problems that are specific to your dog’s home and your dog’s yard and neighborhood.

Every professional dog trainer knows that the best way to train a dog is with private in-home dog training at your home where you and your dog live. This is where the problems are happening. At home is where the training for your dog needs to be. Dogs learn new behaviors best when taught with lots of positive reinforcement and in the beginning in a place where your dog can be trained with little to no distractions.

DOG OBEDIENCE CLASSES TRAIN DOGS BACKWARDS BY HAVING DISTRACTIONS COME FIRST

There are three main phases in dog training. A professional dog trainer will teach you that the three phases of dog training are:

  1. The learning or teaching phase of dog training
  2. The correction phase of dog training, and
  3. The distraction proofing phase of dog training

There should be little to know distractions in the first phase of dog training when first training your dog for the first time new behaviors, or what to do.   By their very nature dog obedience classes are inherently very distracting.

First, you and your dog are doing dog training in an environment and a location that is completely new and novel. Second, you have all kinds of new people, new dogs, not just one, but many, all having the same experience. Dog obedience classes are way too distracting to start training your dog in a group dog training class. The distraction phase of dog training comes last in dog training, not first. All professional dog trainers know this, but many offer group dog training classes in Phoenix because it is very profitable to have the group volume of business.

GROUP DOG OBEDIENCE CLASSES SHOULD HAPPEN LAST FOR POLISHING AND MAINTENANCE

Group dog obedience classes should happen last for polishing and maintenance of the dog training that you and your dog trainer worked on when doing private in-home dog training.

Here at Phoenix Dog Training, we offer Polishing and Maintenance Dog Obedience Classes. These group dog training classes are with dogs that have already had professional dog training at home with one of our Phoenix Dog Trainers. The benefit of having group dog training classes after previously private dog training lessons, are many. First all the dogs in our Phoenix dog obedience classes are trained and under control. These dogs have a strong foundation in dog obedience training while working with our Phoenix dog trainer at your home. Second, all the dog owners and dog handlers in the group dog obedience classes now have skills working with and training their dogs.

PHOENIX DOG TRAINING GROUP DOG OBEDIENCE CLASSES ARE UNIQUE

At Phoenix Dog Training, our group dog obedience classes take the dog training you and your dog learned at home with private dog training, and our Professional Dog Trainer, and take it to the next level with an insane amount of distraction proofing in dog training. Phoenix Dog Training provides the best of both worlds. Our Dog Training Company and Professional Dog Trainers believe a dog is not trained until the dog can listen and until your dog can behave when its crazy, when all heck breaks loose as far as excitement and distraction. If you want a reliable dog then your dog must be able to listen to your dog training commands even in the craziest of distractions. While you can definitely get the distraction in group dog obedience classes, you will not have the reliability and control that private dog training at home will provide you, then following up to polish your dog training skills and maintain your dogs training.

Written by Phoenix Dog Training. If you have a dog or a puppy in need of dog training or puppy training you can contact us at;

Company Name: PHOENIX DOG TRAINING

Address: 3724 E. Morrow Dr., Phoenix, Az. 85050

Phone: 602-769-1411

Email: info@phoenixdogtraining.com

Web: https://phoenixdogtraining.com