ABCDT Certified Dog Trainer

ABCDT Certified Dog Trainers understand how to teach new behaviors through luring, shaping, capturing, or molding and have mastered the behavioral principles of operant conditioning. They have studied positive reinforcement dog training techniques as their primary training tool, which allows your dog to learn the desired behaviors while keeping that unique spark that makes your dog so special to you.

ABCDT Certified Dog Trainers:

• Love all dogs and their people too
• Believe that all new behaviors should be taught through luring, shaping, capturing, or molding
• Do not condemn other dog training professionals for their beliefs
• Understand the benefits of professional dog training with operant conditioning
• Have many tools in their toolbox and know how to use them
• Know there is always more to learn and they attend seminars, workshops and conferences regularly
• Have a strong sense of ethics, which is applied in their business practice
• Have patience and understand that anger and abuse have no place in dog training
• Are always professional
• Treat you and your dog with respect, kindness, empathy, compassion, kinship, and encouragement
• Are passionate about living and working with dogs