28/09/2025
Here’s why YOU need BALANCED training ⚖️
‘1. Balanced training is flexible and more tailored individually to your dog.’ 🐕
Balanced training doesn’t just mean 50-50 positive to negative training. Balanced training can be both more negative or more positive, it all depends on what works best for your dog. You may find your pooch thrives on fuss and treats through training and that your training ends up being more positive based. Or you may find that during training your dog couldn’t care less about treats or paying any attention to you, which may mean you need a more negative/correction based training. Balanced training changes depending on what works best for both the handler and the dog.
‘2. Balanced training doesn’t just enforce the good behaviours but also teaches boundaries too.’ 🧑🏫
Sometimes ignoring behaviours or constantly rewarding good behaviours doesn’t always make the unwanted behaviours go away. Using both positive and negative training methods gives you the best of both. You’re able to teach your dog ‘No, this breaks a boundary’ but also reward your dog when they do respect your boundaries. I.e. correcting your dog for pulling you out the door and rewarding your dog for patiently walking through the door instead.
‘3. Balanced training teaches your dog to both trust you and respect you.’ 🫡
It’s easy to have our beloved pooches trust us. We feed them, walk them, cuddle them and overall treat them as a family member. Having your dog trust you and respect you though, is a little harder to achieve. Balanced training allows for you to build a relationship with your dog based on respect and trust. Balanced training delivers firm guidance and clarity to your dog through your training. A dog that respects you is a dog that will listen and be more responsive to your guidance.
The best analogy we can provide is:
If you had a child who had drawn all over your walls - would you reward that child for putting the pen down after drawing? Or would you tell them off for drawing on the walls?
If balanced training interests you and is something you’re looking to push your dog into, give us a message. 📲