real life solutions to training and behavior problems. Our focus and goal is to educate dog owners on the canine communication and training skills needed to solve problems, while also creating a strong, positive relationship with your dog. We encourage using everyday life as a training opportunity.
Good Dogma offers relaxed, fun, positive classes and provides every student with personalized attention. We have classes that focus on basic training and socialization, and others that present distractions and more advanced challenges. We also offer supervised field trips!
Our training philosophy emphasizes positive reinforcement and patience, and forbids any negative physical interactions between human and dog. We believe that these actions do not solve problems and, in fact, may create bigger ones. Physical punishment does not resolve issues, and when used incorrectly or too harshly (especially at certain stages of puppyhood) it has a good chance of producing lifelong negative behavior. In our training, corrections such as sound diversion, body language and commands act as distractions to unwanted or unacceptable behavior, and serve to refocus the dog.
We believe it is essential to understand what is driving problem behavior; the difference between a dog problem and a human problem. It is critical in training to understand if the canine behavior arises from nature or nurture. When you learn to recognize the difference, the how and why of your dog's behavior, training becomes more efficient and effective.
Good Dogma always takes your dog's personality into consideration and every dog learns at its own pace. We work with you to explore and bring out the best results for you and your dog; to realize a productive, loving, stress-free partnership.