As we have moved forward into 2019, so has science and scientific study. This means for dog professionals keeping up to date, reading studies and new books. Reward based training has had a new literature consisting of various papers supporting rewards based training. Within the review Dr Gal Ziv writes; “Despite the methodological concerns, it appears that aversive training methods have undesirable unintended outcomes and that using them puts dogs’ welfare at risk. In additio