Dog Stability
Dog's Range of Personality
Passive Dog - Dominant Dog - Stable Dog
This is a soft dog with a very mild personality that frightens easily.
After being trained in a boarding or group class style by someone hurting them with any of the three collars, the dog will be terrified of any interaction! Their ability to adjust to new situations and new people will be diminished forever because they are petrified. When the owner reaches out with the collar or leash, the dog will associate the collar and leash with the pain that comes from them, and given the chance, they're going to try to run. Experts call this avoidance learning. This is how a passive dog, when scared, learns to use their FLIGHT instinct to escape and avoid any corrections from happening.
The end results: the dog will run away anytime they see a chance to escape, or may bite out of fear when they cannot escape from what scares them...not because they are aggressive, but because they are scared.
This is a hard dog with a very strong personality that doesn't frighten easily.
After being trained in a boarding or group class style by someone hurting them with any of the three collars, they will become unpredictable of any interaction. When the dog sees someone reaching out with the collar or leash to put them on, they will remember the pain that comes from them, and often they will run to avoid any correction (especially a young pup). However, a dominant dog uses its FIGHT instinct to protect itself. As they mature, they will regain their confidence and become even more fierce. Understand that this type of dog isn't reacting out of fear like the passive dog; eventually they'll make you draw back, thus avoiding any pain from happening to themselves.
The end results: the dog will become distrustful when unsure of ones' intentions and viciously turn on a friend, neighbor or a neighbor's child. The dog owner and their family will be at risk when trying to correct them, especially when the dog is cornered with no chance to run or escape.
The most important goals of a Master Trainer is more than training a dog obedience, behavior or housebreaking, but to completely stabilize the dog's personality, which requires socialization training as well.
The amount of socialization on other training courses varies greatly! Example: a therapy dog is overly-socialized so they're friendly, likes everyone and will never bite (to the opposite) a police attack dog which is never socialized so they will not like or trust people and will bite anyone when commanded. However, a personal protection trained dog must have a balance of socialization and suspicion training, unlike either a therapy or attack dog.
The Master Trainer needs to know the type of training course(s) the dog owner desires before he can begin training, or even consider evaluating their dog. If the correct amount of socialization is not applied on each of these courses, the dog owner could eventually be involved in a lawsuit. Therefore, it is obviously of the utmost importance to have a dog properly trained and evaluated by an expert, especially when the protection training courses are desired.
Each dog in a litter has a different personality, based on the pecking order rank they established in their litter by play fighting daily. The most dominant dog in the litter is the alpha; the most passive dog is the omega. The personality of each dog is formed by the level of dominance they established in their litter, `which often determines what type of training course(s) in which they are best suited or will excel.
No matter which rank they held in their litter, the Master Trainer's job is to get the dog to become a mature stable adult, which is only possible if he can work with the dog's owner until they fully understand the things they need to learn. However, the level of balance and stability for each dog to develop their full potential can only be achieved if the dog's owner is properly working with their dog daily and in the correct manner that is most productive to their dog's individual personality.
These goals will never be properly accomplished if the Master Trainer is not involved. He fully understands the personality of each dog in the litter and knows how to meet the individual needs of each so they can reach full stability with their owner and family.
The end results: When each of these courses are taught and blended with the proper amount of socialization with a Master Trainer's experience, you will end up with a dog that can be fully trusted in any situation and more than willing to please their master. What you want is a well trained dog that is happy, stable and, therefore, a pleasure to be around.