E380- Every Dog Owner In The World Gets Told This Lie | What You Need To Know Before Training Your Dog
No Bad Dogs Podcast
Tom Davis
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Tom Davis talks about the biggest lie in dog training and why it confuses so many poor dog owners.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, if something was peanut free and it really wasn't, that would be a lawsuit. |
| 0:06.5 | If something was gluten free and it really wasn't, that would be an issue. |
| 0:11.6 | So when you tell people that you're force free and you're really not, you're just trying to put that on your advertising, on your card, or on your website. |
| 0:19.6 | And trust me, guys, working with as many |
| 0:21.4 | dog trainers as I have, there's a lot of people who just don't even know what that means. |
| 0:25.7 | They just kind of adopted it from somebody else because it sounds good and it helps them get |
| 0:29.1 | clients through the door. But when you market yourself as force free and you're not, |
| 0:33.4 | that's where I personally have an issue because you're lying to people who are trying to look for you as a professional for help. |
| 0:46.8 | Hey, what's going on guys? Welcome back to my second YouTube channel on the No Bad Dogs podcast. |
| 0:51.9 | Thanks for joining me. My name is Tom Davis. Today we're |
| 0:54.5 | going to be talking about something very popular, very important for people to understand, |
| 0:59.2 | especially people who own dogs, train dogs, love dogs, etc. So we're going to be talking about |
| 1:04.7 | positive reinforcement and the real big difference between positive reinforcement and |
| 1:09.9 | purely positive or purely reward-based |
| 1:13.0 | training. Now, most people don't know this. And being in the dog space for over a decade now, |
| 1:18.3 | I can tell you that a lot of people think that positive means rainbows, butterflies, happiness, |
| 1:25.3 | all the good stuff. And negative means kicking, shouting, |
| 1:29.4 | yelling, zapping, torching, all the bad stuff. And that is that is mongering and that is |
| 1:38.1 | misinformation. And it is something that dog owners unfortunately get tricked. I call it |
| 1:43.9 | marketing manipulation. so a lot of |
| 1:46.1 | times when you see something like positive trainer or reward based only or positive reinforcement |
| 1:53.7 | etc now for dog trainers out there i guess this really isn't applicable to you because it's |
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