correction the Kaden way

Correction - The Kaden Way
You can’t correct what you haven’t taught, yet we train with correction as our first tool, you need to teach them the behaviour first!! Remember they don’t know what you are asking them to do so how do they know if they are doing it wrong. This is where positive training comes into play, Positive Training will give you a confident, positive, happy dog. The Kaden Way is to use Positive Reinforcement.
Positive Reinforcement – is adding something POSITIVE (treats or pat) to INCREASE the behaviour you are asking for. That is why in our training we use treats in the first 10 months and NO correction.
Using Positive Reinforcement gives you the ability to teach and the joy of you and your dog working together.
You need to think about what you are going to teach them. You need to have your dog listening to you if you are training them or going out to work. By using Positive Reinforcement to teach them their name, recall, even going to their kennel will carry through to when you start their training. You will have a connection with your dog that is positive, meaning your dog trusts you and will listen and want to please you.
When correction is started it is NEVER a yell or scream and NEVER hitting!! A simple “No” or “Ah”, voice is quick and sharp but not hoarse. It needs to only be used if the dog ABSOLUTLEY knows that behaviour that it has been asked for. Until you have taught your dog the behaviour you cannot correct it.
An example is if you are teaching flanks, only teach one side at a time. Once a dog has had 10 perfect training sessions without making a mistake then you can class that behaviour as being taught. This is when correction comes in, the dog has learnt “over” so when that cue is given but the dog goes the other way correct with a basic “No” or “Ah” and give cue again. Remember a “Good boy/girl” when they go the correct way.
Remember to keep your expectations DOWN, and that way both you and your dog will be more relaxed. Keep calm be confident, you want at the end of every interaction with your dog to be positive.
Negative Reinforcement – is where you do whatever to get a result, where something is taken away to get the behaviour you want. For ex: if you want your dog to stop barking you may twist its ear and yell at it, when it stops you release its ear. This type of training can destroy a dog’s confidence, especially if they do not understand why they have been punished!!
Another example is dog wearing an electric collar is zapped for trying to lunge at a strange dog. It sometimes learns that it is the lunging that causes the pain. More frequently, however it associates pain with the sight of a new dog so will either be forever scared (which means it will never learn to interact with or ignore them) or it will redouble its efforts to attack. Either way it will only be safe to walk whilst wearing an electric collar and so long as the charge holds. Positive Reinforcement may take longer to give a dog a good association with strange dogs and using distraction techniques but the end result will be a happier more relaxed dog with a handler they trust rather than fear.
I read an excellent article recently about the troubles the author had with her reactive dog. She is throwing money at the problem with a special behaviourist and lots of medication ( which probably brings other issues). She mentioned one thing in passing that set alarm bells ringing to me, they employ an invisible fence around their home. This means the dog is shocked every time it tries to move outside a specific area.
In my view, the dog associated the pain with whatever passed the house and became reactive with both dogs and traffic. By using negative reinforcement to keep the dog close to home they taught it to fear the outside world. This illustrates my point perfectly.
 
FACTS: In a study that was done in 2015

• Dogs raised with Positive Reinforcement where more successful, they had a much higher success rate then dogs trained with Negative Reinforcement.
• That ANYTHING learnt in a POSITIVE manner the dog will repeat over and over again. This is because they enjoy doing it and have no fear.
• A working dog earnt us in 1 year approx. $40,000 savings in wages. Yet farmers where only willing to spend $800-$1000 in vet fees of their dog.

Here a Kaden we believe that Positive Reinforcement and the correct use of Correction will give your dog the opportunity to become the best worker it is capable of becoming.