Happy Dog
Obedience Training & Consulting

Most folk believe that the measure for good dog handling comes from the combined strength of four individual abilities:

• to communicate with their dog clearly;

• to train their dog effectively;

• to control their dog reliably; and

• to love their dog unconditionally.

Well naturally you have the unconditional love well covered. Happy Dog serves for you to build-up the other equally-essential ingredients.

Happy Dog stands by the Behavioural Discipline. This sound framework of solid principles and proven methodology offers an infinite array of strategies for bringing out the best in your dog and the most out of you. Given Happy Dog’s individualized tutoring, you will discover the discipline easy to learn, easy to apply, and always effective.

Communicating With Your Dog:

In order to communicate your expectations clearly to your dog, Happy Dog teaches you how to select, provide, and control various stimuli and reinforcers. Applied appropriately, they enable your dog to understand how to respond and what next to expect from you. These communication tools also include your feelings and gestures. These tools allow you and your dog to read each other like a book, despite the situation at hand.

Training Your Dog:

Happy Dog shows you how to employ these handy communication tools in order to train your dog effectively. You will learn how best to tune-up and tinker-with all the variable nuts and bolts of your dog’s behaviour. These variables include habits, motivation, incentive, innate drives, and inhibitors. Operating together dynamically, they ultimately determine all of your dog’s individual responses and general behaviours. The Behavioural Discipline offers you a systematic, calculative approach to training your dog. You will become able to teach your dog new skills, refine existing responses, prevent undesirable behaviours, alter feelings, change attitudes,..., pretty well whatever you want. Happy Dog is prepared to set you firmly on this path.

Keeping a clear focus on you and your dog’s future together, Happy Dog will teach you various methods of maintaining your dog’s newly-learned behaviours. Furthermore, you will learn how to recover apparently forgotten ones. As your communication and training know-how increases, you will feel the bond between you and your dog tighten snugly.

Controlling Your Dog:

Clear communication and sound training are essential prerequisites for controlling your dog during extraordinary, unforeseen situations and events. Sometimes these so-called oscillation effects can influence your dog’s momentary behavioural potential profoundly. Likewise, oscillations can test your ability to control your dog reliably. Given the Behavioural Discipline, providing your dog with the perfect blend of stimuli and reinforcers during those intense, anxiety-provoking moments, in which most dog owners tend toward panic, will become second-nature to you.

Simply put, Happy Dog is prepared to furnish you with the know-how necessary to sort-out the nuts and bolts of your dog’s behaviours quickly, how to fix them easily, and how to maintain your fixes reliably. And the entire experience is great fun for you and your dog alike.

Handling Your Dog:

Communicating. Training. Controlling. Disciplining. Conditioning. Mastering. Handling. Dog-owners for whom all these abilities apply, are often envied for having the ”Magic,” a compliment reserved, sad to say, for too few, by too few.

Truth is, as you will learn, there is no real magic to good dog handling at all. Rather, it comprises a healthy mixture of the Behavioural Discipline together with the unconditional love you and your dog already share. Happy Dog aims for you and your dog’s unique Magic to become the envy of all your peers, both you and your little dog’s alike.

Happy Dog is prepared to help you improve your dog handling skills to any extent you decide. Are you up to the challenge? Surely your dog is. After all, all dogs love to be good.

Cheers,

Danno Schut

Happy Dog
Obedience Training & Consulting