With the ever growing popularity of service animals, comes also the ever growing problem of service animal fraud. Service animal fraud is the dark side to the wonderful world of service animals.

So, how is someone supposed to choose what methods and trainers to use? To help with this, I am providing you with an overview of the most popular training methods and their positives and negatives.

“The ends justify the means.” Sound familiar? When it comes to training, the means determine the ends. In other words, methods matter. While it may seem like, no matter what method you use, you can get your dog to sit, it’s a bit more complex than that.