Positive Dog Training methodology

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Outstanding animal trainers of all kinds predominantly employ positive training methods with proven effectiveness. For instance:
Zoo trainers train grizzlies, wolves, hyenas, and rhinos to cooperate in their own health and upkeep using reward-based methods. Imagine the dangers involved in trying to punish one of these animals for not performing!
Aquatic mammal trainers use positive techniques to train dolphins, porpoises, and orcas to perform stunning tricks and choreographed maneuvers. Again, you cannot punish one of these animals without risking life and limb, and you cannot force them to do anything they do not want to do.
Naval training programs teach dolphins to swim through schools of fish (their food source), locate mines tethered to the ocean floor and secure demolition explosives to them. This is far more complex than anything a gun dog will ever be asked to do!

Yet, traditional gun dog trainers continue to use harsh training techniques based on outdated information about what motivates dogs — who learn the same way the above animals do! Here is a side-by-side comparison of positive training and traditional training. How would you prefer your hunting buddy be trained?