The world of animal trainers is divided.
You might not be aware of that rift, but it’s there. It took me some time to catch on to it, myself. Basically, there are two animal trainer camps, and they’re hardly on speaking terms.
Actually, there are at least two camps. Camps within camps, perhaps, even. It’s not the purpose of this blog post to define or analyze all the potential animal training fractions, however.
Suppose you were a TV producer charged with launching a new dog training show on your network. Or in this day and age, your medium might not be television but any kind of video streaming service.
How would you go about doing that?
Which criteria would be important in outlining the show?
Some may say: you need to find a charismatic trainer, to serve as host.
True.
That’s not all, though. I wouldn’t even start there.
It took me years to realize this, but there are some approaches that really propelled my learning about animal behaviour management in general, and animal training specifically.
Here are the four tactics or concepts that I’ve found most useful: