Who We Are
The Canine Behavioural School Inc. is a positive reinforcement and reward-based pet dog training club providing training that is relevant to you and your dog.
Our desire is to provide training that will help make your dog a well-mannered and welcomed member of your family and your community. We want to help you train your dog for situations that are encountered in everyday life. We will enhance your understanding of both dog behaviour and responsible pet guardianship. We choose the word guardianship, rather than ownership, as a guardian is one who should be trusted, relied upon to understand, to protect and to respect. All this we owe our dogs.
We provide knowledge to enable training and behavioural management through positive reinforcement methods. Our training methods aim to create a more relaxed dog and guardian and may be used by the whole family as they do not require the use of force or physical strength. We will teach you the skills to train your dog to sit politely when visitors come to the door, to meet and greet other dogs in a friendly manner, or how to manage a situation if one or other dog is not friendly. We will also help you to gain the skills you require to help your dog become a canine good citizen.
Our fun classes are informative and will teach you better dog management skills as we provide socialisation for both guardians and dogs.
Our program leads to a lifelong relationship between dog and guardian that is based on mutual trust and respect.
It is our stance, backed by scientific research, that animal-friendly, positive reinforcement methods are the most useful and least risky to use in dog training and behaviour change and most conducive to improving the human-animal relationship. Our training methods comply with the Code of Ethics of the National Dog Trainers Federation, Delta Society Australia, the Association of Pet Dog Trainers Australia, US and UK and are preferred by the South Australian Dog and Cat Management Board, the RSPCA, the International Institute for Applied Companion Animal Behavior and the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior.
Furthermore we take the stance that punishment-based methods are unethical, inefficient, risk serious harm and are the most likely methods to deteriorate the human-animal bond.
We do not condone or endorse the use of aversive tools such as but not limited to choke/correction chains, prong collars, electronic invisible fencing or electronic shock collars. Nor do we condone or endorse the use of aversive methods such as but not limited to leash corrections, helicoptering, hanging, alpha-rolling, scruff-shaking, spraying the dog in the face with fluid, throwing things at or near the dog, hitting in any way or otherwise creating fear or pain in animals.
A number of our instructors are accredited Canine Good Citizen Instructors by Delta Society Australia Ltd, or are currently working towards the qualification. Some are also members of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers Australia Inc, the Companion Animal Sciences Institute and the International Institute for Applied Companion Animal Behavior. All of our instructors are encouraged to keep their knowledge of dog behaviour and training methodologies up to date and aligned with scientifically proven principles. To this end we hold regular in-service training sessions for all of our instructors and aspiring instructors and encourage all to attend meetings and seminars that will further their ongoing knowledge.
Enquiries are most welcome and we look forward to the opportunity to meet you and your dog.
