Konfident Kanines

After over 30 years of working with dogs, their owners and dog trainers Larry Neilson founded Konfident Kanines Inc (KKI) to provide the proper training required to rehabilitate dogs and educate their owners on how to establish and maintain good canine behavior. Larry is a Certified Dog Trainer (CDT) with the International Association of  Canine Professionals (IACP).

His passion for dogs has helped him develop and share a deep understanding of the canine species and how they interact with their owners. KKI specializes in teaching the dog owner and their dog together as a team, improving communication, correcting undesireable behavior, and creating more harmonious relationships.

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To Bring a Smile to a Child

Lights a candle in my heart

  My chosen vocation is one that brings with it so many rewards, the least of which is monetary. No decision has reaped more rewards than when I decided to volunteer my time and experience to teach young school-age children how to meet and “play safe with dogs”.  

Recently I was invited to pay a visit to “One World” school near downtown Calgary and present the students there with a fun filled presentation about how to approach and act around dogs. The presentation, called “Playing It Safe With Dogs” is designed to teach young children to always ask the dogs’ guardian permission before they approach any dog they may encounter when outside of their home. This short program is also intended to teach children they must never go with a stranger who has a dog. A short video narrated by three dogs explains several ways for children to avoid being bitten by a dog. Included in the presentation are instructions on what …

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Today, more than at any other previous time we hear so many dog trainers refer to “Balanced Training”. What is balanced training anyway? Or maybe the question should be “what is unbalanced training or trainers”?

The general public is lead to believe that “balanced training” is something new. I can assure you that “balanced training” or whatever we wish to call it is not new, far from it. Balanced training has been around for decades.

For the purpose of this article I will spin the coin around and will focus on what might aptly be referred to as “unbalanced training” or “unbalanced trainers”.

Many of my long lists of clients over the years (who have worked with different trainers previously) have told me that they had been instructed not to use a certain technique, tool, or method utilized by other trainers. I could accept them being told this if these same good people had been told “why not”. Yet they have rarely if ever been given an explanation of why not to use a certain training tool, technique …

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