A Dallas dog trainer's line, 'We don't teach dogs here,' is the founding idea of the AISM Working Mountain Dog School: AI does not need better owners' commands. It needs owners who are humble, curious, teachable and transparent, with a dated record that silicon can check.
A sentence at the end of the day
Angelina Musik-Comp and Daniel Comp spent a day in Dallas filming videos and interviews for a client. The property was large, and more than 100 dogs were in training there. The best footage of a day like that often comes near the end, once the camera is just one more thing in the room and people stop performing. That is when the client said the line this school is built on:
"We don't teach dogs here. We teach owners what their breed of dog requires of them."
That was the whole lesson. The client gave no slogan and no pitch, only a plain account of how the work actually goes. A dog is not a problem the owner hands off to be fixed. A dog is a partner whose nature makes demands on the person holding the leash. The trainer's job is not to install obedience the way you install software. The job is to form the owner, because the owner is the one who goes home with the dog.
So dog schools are...