Aly, thanks for clarifying all of that. I sort of knew what the positive/negative terminology meant but didn't know how to really explain it. Many people hear positive or negative and consider it to mean Positive = good, negative = bad when in reality it's positive = add, negative = subtract.

I had to read through your definitions a few times for it to all click together in my mind . I've been trying to learn all the particulars of a new account with my work, and my brain is dead for the day.

I trained Tash traditionally with the slip collar in her obedience class when she was 7 months old, but had I to do it over again I'd definitely use the methods I used to re-train her. Sometimes if we're walking and she gets distracted and starts pulling ahead, I just say "uh uh" in a fairly chipper manner and it works to focus her attention back on me.

I'd highly recommend positive training methods such as those Aly and Candy mentioned for training sessions.