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No Bad Dogs Podcast

e002 What Is A Dog Trainer?

No Bad Dogs Podcast

Tom Davis

Kids & Family, How To, Education, Pets & Animals

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Thomas reflects on the difference between a trainer and an educator and why it is an important distinction to be made in the world of dog training.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome to the No Bad Dogs podcast with me Tom Davis

0:05.2

America's K-9 Educator the podcast about the lifestyle of living working and

0:09.9

loving with dogs and dogs and dogs and dogs and more dogs. I'm excited about today's

0:15.6

episode. Again the first couple episodes guys for those of you who are listening

0:19.7

are going to be short and sweet because we want to get some stuff out there we want to make it quality and today

0:25.9

what we're going to talk about is we're going to talk about dog what is dog training and whoa

0:30.2

what a what a subject and how long can we talk about that a lot and there is a lot to it but

0:37.7

I want to just talk about you know what I think dog training is and what I think what I do and I know it kind of

0:45.1

sounds me me me me me me me but I just want to talk a little bit about the

0:49.2

differences of like I know some people who do the same stuff that I do as well

0:52.2

and dog training to me is a lifestyle.

0:56.8

I think working with dogs is literally a lifestyle.

0:59.9

I think and it doesn't have to be if you professionally work with dogs if you're the person

1:03.4

with four or five dogs at home you are a dog person right and so your dog you know your

1:10.1

dog is all of our dogs are very important to us and we all have capabilities of

1:16.0

what we can and can't do with them and I think there there becomes a certain point

1:20.0

where we just hit a wall where we're like my dog just won't do this or my dog will not stop this and I think that that's what dog training is and

1:31.0

for me I don't do that, like I don't do dog training and I just I just

1:38.2

actually googled what training is and I'll read you the definition

1:43.4

the action of teaching a person or animal a particular skill or type of behavior

1:50.1

which is interesting because honestly for me I always just assumed dog training was

1:55.0

teaching dogs sit-stay-weight which is what a lot of people come in here and think that

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