Since I first moved to Raleigh in 2013, dog training methods here haven’t evolved as much as I’d hoped. While I’m delighted to see that more dog trainers are using positive methods, I’m discouraged to know that too many are still using outdated and punitive methods. I’m disgusted that one ...

For decades, dog training was synonymous with group classes. You couldn’t visit a retail pet store, either big box or independent, without seeing advertisements for its puppy classes or observing a dog training class while browsing the aisles for toys and other essential goods. I noticed that the dog training ...

In 2007, when I took my puppy to advanced puppy class, we had fun, despite my sometimes uneasy feeling about our dog trainer, whose nature struck me as dictatorial, and despite my gut telling me that there had to be a kinder way to train dogs. I barely paid attention ...