Manners for Puppy: We guide
and modify your new puppy's behavior in all important areas.
We offer puppy kindergarten for under five months and beginning
obedience training for five months and older.
Behavior Modification: We have a special
program designed to correct behavior problems including:
-- housebreaking
-- chewing
-- barking
-- digging
-- jumping
-- separation anxiety
-- fear and aggression
-- plus many more.
Socialization: An important part of
our pet sitting program, with a special Positive Puppy
Play Program available for our youngest "guests."
Choosing the Right Pet: A private,
in-home conference and evaluation based on your lifestyle,
living quarters, tastes, interests, family members,
children, time available to spend with a pet, temperament,
discussion of breeds, referral to breeders and more. |
Natural Training Method Yields Remarkable Results
Working With Your Dog's Basic Desire to Please You.
Doggie Central owner Faith Mantooth's teaching methods are
totally "natural,"  working with your dog's existing
responses to stimulation, whatever they already are. All
these responses were learned. So her techniques are aimed
at reversing unadaptive learning and providing new learning
experiences that are fully adaptive to your lifestyle.
Faith's preparatory steps in this process are,
first, to establish a good and positive working relationship
between you and your dog, that is founded on trust and love
and a commitment to certain behavioral goals for your dog.
Once rapport is re-established on this new level, Faith provides
you with the understanding you'll need about the nature of
a dog's thinking and reflexes, the forces that are instrumental
in producing the exact set of behaviors you want, and how to
communicate precisely what you want so that your dog can fulfill
its natural desire to please you by its behavior.
 Her procedures include (1). reducing your dog's
anxieties (and perhaps yours as well) through techniques of
relaxation between the two of you, getting back "in touch",
then (2) teaching both you and your dog a practical form of
operant conditioning, in which only those behaviors you desire
from your dog are essentially reinforced, consequently, made
stronger. Similarly, your dog's unadaptive (bad) behaviors
are "unlearned" with the help of these same principles.
Faith Mantooth's NATURAL METHOD works, because
its basis is the development of the full potential of every
dog to love and please its owner. Her procedures emerged out
of her own devotion to dogs and her observations that they
are always capable of growth and complete sociability in their
owners world but they may on occasion need to be reminded how
to adapt. It was this total acceptance of the inherent nature
of dogs to want to fit in and please their owners which provided
Faith's orientation for training. In effect, as another famous
trainer. Barbara Wodehouse, once said, "there are no bad
dogs", only bad (unadaptive) behaviors So Faith Mantooth's
focus is always on the specific behavioral modification, never
a judgment about the dog.
This is what she teaches you, easily and quickly.
In her classes you'll never have to tug or reprimand or punish
your dog. The bonding between you will become deeper. Your
dog's confidence and spirit will increase, as you begin learning
how a dog thinks as Faith shows you how to communicate to your
dog exactly what pleases you and what does not. You will enjoy
knowing how to enable your dog to fulfill its primary goal
in life, to make you happy. And with Faith's teaching methods,
happy owners come away with happy dogs. |
