Today, Adrienne and I got to work with another dog training organization called Dog Training Camp, USA. It was pretty different from Teamworks Dog Training in that they didn’t always do their training at their location and they also didn’t emphasize positive reinforcement as much. Today we took the dogs they were boarding/training on a walk in Waverly. We walked the dogs in circles in order to get them prepared for the walk we took and also to calm them down a little bit. What I noticed that was different from Teamworks was the fact that this camp taught their dogs to walk with them and sit by tugging at the collar around their necks. This was quite different from the positive reinforcement we saw at the other location. Although I wasn’t that keen on tugging on the collars, I admired how the dogs knew exactly what to do when their owner did that action. They instantaneously sat down or stopped walking. My favorite pup there was a beagle named Chance who was very lovable and was always opening to cuddling with Adrienne and I. He was absolutely adorable! The walk was really calming and the dogs seemed pretty worn out by the end, but it was pretty cool to be able to compare the two different types of training methods.
