Renee, help
Did I hire a bad trainer?
My husband and I were at our wits end over our two puppies (from the same litter). We were about to give them up, when we hired two trainers who came to our house for six lessons. They did training for tricks and basic obedience with treats, but in order to get them to be less dependant on each other and more bonded to us, they had us keep them on leashes in the house with us.
However, they did instruct us to use pinch collars to train them to walk on a loose lease (which they now do without the pinch) and told use to use the "U" trick to keep them from jumping up (which they no longer do).
The training really helped my sanity, but from your reaction, there was a better way.
I've just been following my trainer's directions, and she's been working with dogs for 20 years, and all of her dogs (11 of them) are very well behaved.
What should I change?
I want to do what's best for my dogs, but until I started using a pinch, they were terrors!
Linda