What is Best Behavior Dog Training?

Morgan Spector established Best Behavior Dog Training in 1995 to give formal existence to his work in developing a system for applying clicker training methods to competition obedience training. This work ultimately led to the publication of Clicker Training for Obedience, published by Sunshine Books.

Morgan took about four years off from his own dog training after he adopted Michael. Recently Morgan has begun his own training again and has started again to take clients, both pet owners and competition trainers.

That four-year period was not entirely without dog involvement, however. Morgan worked with Bob and Marian Bailey for two years from 1998 to 2000 developing an operant training program for Canine Companions for Independence (CCI). Ultimately CCI abandoned the project, but Morgan's interest in service dog work is unabated. He has participated for several years on the Operant Conditioning-Assistance Dogs list, a list maintained principally for people training their own service dogs using operant conditioning. 

Morgan also continues to write articles for the AKC Gazette and Off Lead Magazine. He participated in three of Terry Ryan's Legacy Camps teaching a 3-day workshop on the shaped retrieve.

Morgan is also (at long last!) putting a long-awaited video project into production with Canine Training Systems (CTS). The project will include several tapes; the first tape will cover essential basics such as clicker mechanics, focus, and targeting. Later tapes will cover puppy work, heeling, jumping, signals and the retrieve. The concept differs from typical programs in that each tape is geared to work any dog from basics to completed exercise, breaking away from the time-honored "novice, open, utility" approach.

And finally there is Morgan's new working partnership with Fran Jewell of Positive Puppy Dog Training in Hailey, Idaho. There will be a lot of exciting new programs as well as clicker-oriented training products coming out of this association over the next two years.