About Us

Overview:

Ain’t Mis­be­havin’ Gen­tle Dog Train­ing, LLC, teaches peo­ple how to train their pets.  In spite of our name that refers to dogs, we can show you how to teach any­one or any­thing liv­ing in your house. But, what is “gen­tle dog train­ing?”  It is clicker-training or oper­ant con­di­tion­ing.  This is a sci­en­tific train­ing method devel­oped by B. F. Skin­ner, PhD., in the early part of the 20th cen­tury.  Through this method, behav­iors are “marked” with some aid (in our case using a clicker) and the ani­mal is rewarded.  The ani­mal learns that cer­tain behav­iors gen­er­ate treats and the dog becomes eager to offer behaviors.

Unlike tra­di­tional train­ing meth­ods, oper­ant con­di­tion­ing (clicker-training) uses no form of pun­ish­ment or cor­rec­tion.  There are no choke, prong or elec­tric col­lars,  no “leash pop­ping,” no push­ing, no pulling and no kick­ing.  This train­ing is entirely force free.  Desired behav­iors are rewarded and the unde­sir­able behav­iors are ignored.  A dog learns that desired behav­iors make a good thing hap­pen and as the result, the desired behav­iors increase.  An exam­ple is reward­ing the dog for lying on his mat when the door bell rings as opposed to jump­ing up, run­ning around and bark­ing.  Don’t we all like receiv­ing praise and bonuses for our work as opposed to crit­i­cism and pun­ish­ment?  Clicker-training has both the han­dler and ani­mal look­ing for­ward to training.

Ain’t Mis­be­havin’ Gen­tle Dog Train­ing, LLC, con­ducts pri­vate lessons in your home.   You can begin lessons vir­tu­ally imme­di­ately and this train­ing pro­gram fits per­fectly into your sched­ule.  If for some rea­son you miss a class, noth­ing is lost.  You can’t get behind, we will sim­ply resched­ule.  A train­ing pro­gram will be designed specif­i­cally to your needs.  It does not mat­ter whether you have a new puppy, an older dog or a dog with behav­ior prob­lems.  Please check out our site and if you are inter­ested, you can fill out the on-line form or give Louis Mande a call.  Our ser­vice area is pre­dom­i­nantly Philadel­phia and east­ern Mont­gomery County, Penn­syl­va­nia.  But we can talk.

Imag­ine train­ing your dog where there is no stress or anx­i­ety asso­ci­ated with train­ing.  Your com­mu­ni­ca­tion with your dog will increase many fold and you will actu­ally become closer to your dog.

Give gen­tle dog train­ing a chance.  It can’t hurt.

Our Staff:

Louis Mande, Owner

Brid­get, Direc­tor of Research and Development

Barkley, Per­ma­nent Intern

Kylie Augus­tine, Vice Pres­i­dent in charge of finance and travel

Joe Mande, Vice Pres­i­dent of artis­tic design and non-essential ser­vices

Rachel Mande, Vice Pres­i­dent of artis­tic design