Michael helps students
strengthen their relationship with their dog by teaching them how to
become wonderful tour guides for their dogs in the human world using
primarily positive training methods.
"The cause of most
behavioral problems is miscommunication and not dominance issues," says
Patricia McConnell, Ph.D., associate professor of Zoology at the
University of Wisconsin and author of For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend.
Either dogs don't know what their owners want, she says, or we
inadvertently have taught them to do the wrong thing. "Most behavioral
problems can be solved by owners learning how to teach a dog what it is
they want, by using the science of how animals learn."
