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Which do you prefer, sending your dog to obedience school or training them yourself?
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both are good, but in some way, I like to train my dogs myself.
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Always train yourself.....it creates an unbelievable bond with your dog. I worked with a guy a few years ago who paid big bucks for this Chesapeake Bay Retriever and sent him away to trained for hunting. He paid like $500.00 a week to have this dog trained and when they went out in the fall the dog would not hunt to save his life. He sent the dog back to the same trainer and was charged again $500.00 a week. Unbelievable. I would also like to hunt with my Krissy and can only find trainers who want to take her. I won't do it. I might as well given birth to this dog and I won't send her to who knows where, to be fed who knows what and sleep who knows where and be treated who knows how. No matter what you will never know what happens when you drive away. I have had people want me to obedience train their dogs for them and I won't do it. At the end of the day you will want you dog to listen to you and interact with you and I don't think you will get that if someone else trains for you. Always research your trainers and if you are not comfortable with how they are asking you to treat your dog walk...no run....away.
 Mandy Mae - 6 yrs old on the right Krissy Kay - 6 yrs old on the left Tommy Tri - 5 yrs old up front
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luvmyspringers (7/31/2006)
Always train yourself.....it creates an unbelievable bond with your dog. I completely agree! Besides, training your dog is fun. I get a great sense of accomplishment when Mocha learns a trick, and the more you train your dog, the better you both get at it.
 
Proud owner of Mocha the Dachshund, 2006 Cutest Dog Channel Dog Champion, and 2007 runner up!
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I love, love, love training my own dogs. I enjoy finding new behaviors to keep learning nearly their entire life
 ~*~*And he says 'Rhiannon don't go.... Rhiannon stay'.... And he still cries out for her.... 'Don't leave me.... don't leave me now'....*~*~
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| i train my dogs my self it is so fun i love it
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I agree with all of you! I LOVE training Lumpi and since I work with him every day, I understand his body language more, I know what his next movement will be, I even know when he is just about to bark! And I love it!
I would NOT pay anybody anything to have this wonderful feeling that I can have with him, when he/we learn a trick just as MayaWolf said! I am so proud of us, when I can show our new tricks to my husband, or anybody!
Also, I do think that there are people that are just unable to train their own dog | | | |