Your Thinking Dog

History

Worked as a positive dog trainer at Petco and graduated from the Karen Pryor Academy for clicker training, the number one dog training and behavior school in the country. Tricia is the only KPA graduate in the Rochester area.

Specialties

Tricia is a graduate of the Karen Pryor Academy, which is dedicated to positive reinforcement training which means no punishment, corrections or aversive of any kind. Training is reward marker based; we mark behavior that we like with a click or a yes and ignore behavior we don't like. Behavior that has been rewarded gets repeated and behavior that gets ignored, extinguishes. Because your dog is making choices to do behaviors you desire and that you have rewarded him/her for previously, you learn how to communicate with each other and an increasingly strong bond is built. Instead of commanding your dog to do what you want you work collaboratively towards instilling mutually beneficial behaviors.