Dog behavior training is my specialty for the Los Angeles CA area including surrounding areas San Fernando Valley, Malibu, West Los Angeles and Central Los Angeles. Dog behavior is based on a pack relationship. Humans tend to become isolated in thought and treat dogs as humans expecting a positive result. A dog will give a human owner a lot of frustration and negative behavior when treated as humans see the world. Communication becomes more a negative than a positive.

My knowledge of dogs began in 1989 studying with Bud Brownhill a marquise title holder in dog training (Highest title). How dogs think and creating a relationship is more important than forcing commands and creating a lifeless dog. The genetic code of a dog cannot be change nor will dogs understand complex thought process at a human level. How dogs communicate in nature must be the form in which humans communicate with domestic dogs. Treat training with food, clickers, shock collars and gentle leads will not create a relationship replicated in nature.

Seeing eye dogs, police dogs, military dogs and search and rescue dogs are not trained with hand feeding treats. Dogs must be reliable off leash in any situation. Hand feeding as a reward for good behavior is manipulating a dog not training a dog. Hand feeding will not work with a high alpha ranking dog. Dogs are not reliable in a distracted environment when hand fed trained. Dogs respond to three main areas of communication. Communication from 1) environment, 2) leadership, and 3) emotional. Each level of communication for dogs is an instinctive response of action and reaction. If a technique of dog training is not practiced in nature than do not attempt the technique at home with your domestic dog.

Dogs are carnivorousness and therefore combative by nature. Through play and direct combat with one another this physical communication is normal day life for dogs. Watch any nature show on wild dogs, wolves and coyotes and study the levels of physical force for every day communication. Humans have a hard time understanding dogs. What is too much physical force or not enough? How is the physical correction seen as a correction to obey a rule and not a deadly threat? These are the questions needed to be answered to be a successful dog owner.