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Welcome to Konfident Kanines!

International Association of Canine Professionals 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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Educational Seminars

Our educational seminars are designed for professionals, adults, and children, in both large and small groups. Ranging from correcting behavioural issues to managing animals as a dog groomer or walker to understanding how an animal thinks.

Seminars

Group Training

Our group training courses are designed with both the novice and experienced dog owner in mind. These courses are extensive and designed to provide you with the foundation you will need to create a happy and healthy relationship with your pet. (more…)

Private Training

Our Private training sessions are geared toward resolving obedience and behavioral issues that despite your best efforts, you haven’t been able to correct. (more…)

January 3, 2012 |

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Unbalanced Training – the dark side of Balanced Training

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 …

January 3, 2012 |

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How to Respectfully Approach an Unfamiliar Dog

On a regular basis I encounter or am intercepted by a person that demonstrably has little or no concept of how to approach a dog in a safe and respectful manner. I am not suggesting that these good people do so intentionally, but rather that they have simply not been privy to reliable information relating to this subject. Let’s each of us examine our approach from the dog’s point of view shall we.

Dog etiquette dictates that it is disrespectful and/or even confrontational for another dog to rapidly approach head on while making direct eye contact and exhibiting offensive body language. That being so, how many times have you seen someone approach an unfamiliar dog, stride right up to it, and then with little or no hesitation reach out to pet the unsuspecting creature on the head? Most of the people guilty of this disrespectful behaviour are adults; many of them don’t even exhibit the courtesy of asking the person in care …

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