by Jaime McKittrin

Does your dog embarrass you?  Or is perhaps humiliate a better word? Can you count on your animal to do exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time?

Does he beg at the table?

Does she pee on the floor?

Does your dog jump up on your visitors or growl at children?

Does he dig up all of your newly planted flower beds looking for who knows what?

Does she drag you on a walk, constantly tugging at her leash?

Does he try to hump  the leg of your boss? 

Do you sometimes wish you had never adopted your dog?

Don’t you wish you could train your dog to change all those bad behaviors?

Imagine a quiet home where your animal is calm and follows your instructions. Imagine him ringing a bell when he has to go outside or her peeing only where you instruct her to.

Imagine taking brisk walks with your pet at your side – no tugging or pulling, no barking at other dogs, no jumping on children or growling at people!

The dog we are describing has been properly trained.

No, you don’t have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to send your animal to obedience school. In fact we recommend great video training program  that includes everything you will need, (along with several outstanding free bonuses) for under $40.

Best of all the course is based on Positive Dog Training Techniques — a “no hands” approach that teaches behaviors through positive reinforcement.

The course starts with training your dog to learn how to solve problems. This will drastically improve his ability to learn new behaviors.

To help you understand this, we have called upon Chet, our expert dog trainer. As time goes on, you will learn more about Chet, but I want to say right up front that he’s the best in the business.

Chet’s approach to dog training is completely “hands-off”, which I think is great. He takes a 100%  positive dog training approach

Chet believes it is extremely important to first train your dog to solve problems. Once you have done this, it will be much easier for your pet to learn behaviors.

For example, let’s look at two 8 week old puppies, neither potty trained, and show you how this works.

Let’s take one puppy and train him the traditional way. Every time he goes potty we grind his face in his own urine and/or feces, swat him three or four times will a rolled up newspaper (all the while yelling that he is a bad dog), and then toss him outside.

Conventional knowledge says the dog will quickly figure out that crapping in front of you get’s him a beating and, if he’s smart, he’ll ask to go outside where he doesn’t get clobbered and screamed at.

Maybe. Maybe not.

It is more likely that what you actually taught your dog is to hide from you when he goes potty so he doesn’t get beat up — or — hide his poo somewhere where you won’t find it. Chet had one woman call him and ask why her dog always went behind the sofa to pee even though she swears she has never hit him. Chet doesn’t believe her.

Now watch how the situation changes when we teach the puppy to learn to solve problems, using a Positive Dog Training Technique:

First of all, we won’t start with potty training. Instead we’ll put up a make-shift doggie fence and keep the puppy confined in this area. That way, If he has an accident inside this space, it won’t upset us.

Second, we pick a training exercise to teach problem solving skills so that when we get to potty training the dog will catch on MUCH quicker.

One of Chet’s favorite things to teach beginners is the “go to your mat” game. In this game he uses the “hands off approach” that he teaches in his Positive Dog Training Course.

It’s difficult to completely explain this in a blog post –- the video is much more educational — but in a nutshell, Chet stands extremely still and trains the dog to go and lay on a mat at his command.

It is amazing to see how quickly he accomplishes this with a wild little 8 week old puppy!

He never lures him with a treat, never says good boy, and never touches him (actually he does pet him as a reward once or twice) during the entire exercise.

Instead Chet simply drops tiny little treats on the floor every time the pup gets closer to getting on his mat. The puppy soon realizes that laying on his mat is the thing getting him his reward. The only clue Chet gives the animal is dropping treats as the dog gets closer.

It’s incredible.

Do you remember playing “Hot and Cold” when you were a kid? As you searched for a hidden object, the person that hid it would direct you by saying you are getting cold, colder. You would turn and be instructed you were now getting warm, warmer, hot!

That’s what Chet does with his dog … but he only he tells him only when he’s getting warmer, never colder.

Because he doesn’t move, talk, gesture or tell the dog what to do in any way, the animal is forced to solve the problem by thinking it through.

In his course Chet shows on one of the videos exactly how he did this with his 8 week old Golden Retriever — and how it became the cornerstone to potty training, training the dog to stay off the furniture, not bark at the back door, not jump on visitors — well, the whole spectrum of bad behaviors.

You can see how Chet convinced the puppy there was a game being played — a game in which the pup got yummy treats whenever he did stuff right — and ALL dogs are up for figuring out how to get more yummy treats!

According to Chet, once you’ve taught your dog how to solve problems, your dog will start using this type of thinking in everything he does — and he’ll pick up potty training and the more advanced trainings much more quickly.

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Please understand that articles and blog posts will give you the basics, but if you want to get the most out of these tips, you really need to understand all of the underlying basics which are included in the Positive Dog Training Course.

Click Here to see the detail’s of Chet’s Positive Dog Training Techniques