A score hospice facilities than speaking around the state dog and then guide his partner a clear manner that the partner CAN follow. Partners who have to shout out the steps or who yank their follower around 't make the cut. With animals the approach is similar. If we set rules and have a clear picture of what we want, then we can consistently convey this information to the animal through our body language and perfectly timed rewards. When learning to lead our pets, it is essential to realize that it's important to reward desired behaviors consistently but it's equally important to remove rewards for unwanted behavior immediately. This combination is essential if the animal is to learn to behave ONLY the desired ways. It is also essential to stick to this plan until the good behavior becomes a habit. It's important to realize that positive does not mean permissive. Regardless of which species you're dealing with there must be rules and guidelines for behavior. Rule 1: The animal should respect your personal space and enter when given permission. That is, dogs should not jump on people unless the humans have solicited jumping, horses and goats should not walk over your toes or or push you with their heads, parrots should not fly and land on your head and walk all over you like you're a jungle gym. Instead pets animals should ask for permission for your attention and everything else they want by sitting or standing quietly and calmly and focus on you. It's up to the humans to pay attention and reward this polite behavior. Rule 2: The overall goal is to train your pet to respond to your cues command to, for instance, come, lie down, walk nicely on leash, the first time you ask without your needing to beg or plead or treats or have a collar or choke chain on. The response should become a habit. Punishment isn't always inappropriate. It's just incredibly overused and most cases it's performed incorrectly. As a behaviorist who works with domesticated and wild species of animals and who started as a traditional dog trainer, I draw from entire knowledge base to modify behavior animals. goal is to use whichever techniques work best with the least likelihood of side effects the pet. If that best technique involves a punishment such as, for dogs, a collar pop or reprimand, or booby trap of some sort, or even electronic collar, then I use it. But it rarely does. Consequently I use the combination of positive reinforcement and negative punishment 99% of the time and use aversives probably 1000 times less than a traditional trainer and relevant rewards 1000 times more. I also occasionally recommend or allow aversives to clients First I educate them regarding the possible adverse effects and difficulties of using the aversive and then let them choose whether they feel comfortable trying the technique. They are supervised and we observe the dog's body language for negative effects. I also educate them to the fact that some products, such as head collars, flat collars and harness can be aversive to some dogs even though we try to desensitize and counter-condition the dogs to them. These and other products must all be used carefully order to get the intended positive effect. With that said, I 't think that pet owners should use force or punishment. If they decide to do it should only be after they are proficient at rewarding good behaviors and removing rewards for unwanted behavior until the good behaviors have become a habit. reasoning here is that: 1. Unless we are intimately aware of how we reward inappropriate behaviors, people punish bad behaviors when they are thinking about training and reward those same behaviors at other times. They need to first learn to be aware of their actions and how it affects their pet before they earn the privilege of punishing the pet 2. Humans tend to fall back on punishment because it requires less brain power to react to a problem than