Hey guys, I will be holding our first Power Obedience Seminar March 11-12 at our new state of the art training facility at Shield HQ. The focus of this seminar will be developing active powerful obedience for the sport field or the working world.0 Learn the secret behind the activity and precision you see in my dogs on social media and in real life. When the tools come off and the reward is no longer present do you still have a dog? If the answer is NO, you need to get to this workshop! Have a problem in your obedience you need to fix? Haz has extensive experience working with dogs of all cali ..read more

“My entire philosophy and training system is designed to make life with your dog easy for BOTH of you.” – Haz Othman Imagine a dog that promptly obeys you whether he is next to you or 100 yards away. That comes when he is called, does not make pointless noise or destroys your house. This is only possible through a balanced training approach.  I don’t rely on bribery nor do I rely on punishment.  Instead I utilize a consequence based system that teaches the dog how to make the right choice (MY choice) every time.  This makes things very black and white for your dog and is thu ..read more

In this series of articles I speak to some of the common thinking errors and myths perpetrated by the purely positive or force free type training community.  Allow me to preface this series by saying that I am well aware of how to use a clicker, treats, toys, manage thresholds, stimulation, and motivation in dog training. In fact I use many of these training tools in my own practice often in concert with other techniques. In this series of articles we examine this topic in depth.  I will endeavour to use many real world examples to illustrate my points and keep things interesting ..read more

Let us first address the concept of science based training.  Many force free training advocates will tell you that their approach is supported by science.  That animals trained with positive reinforcement are proven to learn new behaviors more quickly then if they are punished.  Guess what!  This is absolutely true. Unfortunately this is not the complete truth. BF Skinner is the noted behaviorist best known for his development of the learning theory, ‘Operant Conditioning’ which is recognized as one of the most comprehensive behavior theories in existence today.  Ski ..read more

The fundamental basis behind all positive training systems is using motivators to teach and strengthen behaviors. A motivator is anything that your dog desires, usually food or a toy. The trainer offers the motivator to the dog after he performs the desired behavior thus making that behavior more likely. Seems simple enough, what could go wrong? The trouble with relying exclusively on motivators to train your dog is that they change day to day, hour to hour and minute to minute. Your dog might love hot dogs more than anything most of the time but at some point he is going to temporarily prefe ..read more

Download this article Key Points Moving forward your job is to make accountability with the dog in relation to the obedience and overall behavior of the dog. You achieve accountability with a combination of Motivation and Obligation. Motivation is created with praise and food or toy rewards, you do not use these things to bribe the dog into compliance but to reward the dog for a job well done after completion of a command or a good behavior choice. Obligation is created by correcting the dog for failure to comply with a known command. Corrections take the form of the remote collar or prong co ..read more

The following is an excerpt of our upcoming book on dog training.. If you are the kind of person that is motivated enough to find and read this book you have probably researched dog training at least a little bit. Enough anyways that you have probably read several different methods that swear up and down that they work and that the other way is abusive, cruel, useless etc. If you are not a professional how do you sort the wheat from the chaff? When I first became interested in dog training I had the same dilemma. The simple answer I found is results. Not anecdotal but actual visual observable ..read more

The following is an excerpt from our upcoming book on dog training.. STRESS and PLEASURE in DOG TRAINING I will start with stress as this is a topic often misunderstood in dog training. Stress is something many trainers and owners fear and avoid at all costs often to the detriment of the results they produce and ultimately the dog they are responsible for helping. That is because they refuse to think about stress logically and are never able to get past their emotional response to stress.  Stress is neither good or evil, it just is. Stress is simply a mechanism that all living beings ex ..read more

Is the myth true that correcting your dog will make it aggressive? Find out all in this video. Don’t forget to like, share and subscribe for more. The post Would correcting your Dog make it aggressive? appeared first on SHIELD K9 DOG TRAINING ..read more

Hey guys, I will be holding our first Power Obedience Seminar March 11-12 at our new state of the art training facility at Shield HQ. The focus of this seminar will be developing active powerful obedience for the sport field or the working world.0 Learn the secret behind the activity and precision you see in my dogs on social media and in real life. When the tools come off and the reward is no longer present do you still have a dog? If the answer is NO, you need to get to this workshop! Have a problem in your obedience you need to fix? Haz has extensive experience working with dogs of all cali ..read more