About Red Dog Training

<h2>A competition-oriented private and group trainer</h2><p>Red Dog Training's page is written in the first person by Lisa Potts and lists the services offered as group and private lessons, household obedience, competition obedience and rally obedience, agility training, and Canine Good Citizen training and testing. The same list also includes bird training and, separately, notary public services; the bird training section explains that clicker work used with the dogs has been applied to the family parrot, and invites owners who want to try the same with their own bird.</p><h2>Method</h2><p>The page describes Lisa Potts as "a positive reinforcement based trainer" who uses clicker training with her own dogs and incorporates operant conditioning and clicker training into her classes. It says she has taken masters level courses in animal learning at the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, and credits her with "over 15 years of competitive dog training experience" and fourteen years teaching puppy kindergarten, basic obedience, family dog training, agility, flyball and rally obedience.</p><h2>Credentials the page claims</h2><p>The page gives her post-nominals as MBA, CPDT, says she is a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers and a certified dog trainer (CPDT), and describes her as a licensed AKC, UKC, CPE, DOCNA, ASCA and UKI agility judge, a UKC rally obedience judge, a CGC evaluator and an apprentice flyball judge. It says she has earned over 250 titles and certifications with her own dogs, that she offers training seminars, and that she has spoken at the APDT Conference.</p><h2>A caution on the schedule</h2><p>Scheduling is by weekday, with weekends limited because of her own judging and showing commitments. The published weekly schedule should be treated as out of date rather than current: it refers to agility, rally and flyball classes "offered in April, 2011" and to midweek classes at the Decatur Obedience Training Club. Contact by email or phone before assuming any listed slot still runs. This write-up draws on the single page the site serves at this address.</p>