How will my dog feel about SkyShepherd training?

How do I know what my dog is feeling emotionally while I am training him with SkyShepherd?

Keep in mind that sensing and emotional feelings in dogs are different than our human equivalents. Sometimes its hard not to project too much emotion onto our dogs that isn’t really there. From dogs’ perspectives, life is much simpler; they seek safety in every moment of their life – not out of fear, but as a main motivation to choose one of three responses to any stimulus. They choose either to fight, flee, or freeze in order to achieve safety. In fact, one of the most important objectives with any dog training is to observe and learn how your dog reacts to stimuli.

Unless you're a professional trainer, it's important that you know your dog before you start training with SkyShepherd so you can be familiar with its reactions during training. This is one of the reasons why we recommend that you and your dog have successfully achieved a basic obedience level of training before starting with SkyShepherd. When you know your dog, you can then start to anticipate what your dog’s reactions will be. You can never know for sure how your dog will react to any new stimulus, which is why training should start on a short leash (for your control), however, knowing your dog in general will help you to be more adept at teaching it what the proper response to stimuli is. With SkyShepherd feedback, the proper response is to immediately return to Safe Zone. The different stimuli associated with each zone help your dog to differentiate between zones, thereby guiding their understanding of their relative position within the boundary, and always encouraging them to be in Safe Zone.

Something else to consider is that SkyShepherd is based on incentive learning that empowers your dog to be a participant in training. Since SkyShepherd responds to your dog's movement, your dog begins to realize that it has the power to affect feedback. This empowerment leads to rapid and persistent learning.