About

Patriot Dogs Mission’s goal is to serve communities by integrating humanely trained K9s. This mission is to supply persons in need of any type of working dog. The range is limitless from a service dog supporting a child with juvenile diabetes to a full patrol K9 working with its human partner to apprehend suspects. The economics in this market creates the prices for the dogs to be unreachable to many who are in need. Spreading the cost over the general public takes the strain away from many who are already under financial burden, this can be from medical bills or a small police department without the funding to purchase a much needed K9.

You Have the Power to make a difference

Dogs help us

So we need to be fair to them

We make our communities better if both human and dog benefit from working together

Compulsion in dog training is a controversial topic that is debated among all levels of working dog groups. By definition compulsion is “the action or state of forcing or being forced to do something” (www.languages.oup.com) but Patriot Dogs Mission believes this concept should be more specifically defined. The unnecessary use of equipment that is only meant to inflict pain (i.e. prong collars and electric collars) is a slippery slope and a shortcut to a large number of trainers but this type of compulsion is disguised as direction which creates stress and ultimately trauma. To the untrained eye the stress signals can be missed but to someone who has trained a wide range in drive of dogs the stress signals are painful to watch. Watching dogs so much under stress that it passes out and falls over should not happen but it happens on a routine bases.

The trauma response in a dog looks very similar to that of a human who has lived with an abuser. Although from the outside the abused seems to function well under pressure it is in fact that the abused can be so conditioned to function during a reoccurring traumatic event that the physical pain has been taken over by mental pain until either the person or animal fights back, submits or dies.

Every trainer either good or bad unitizes classical and operant conditioning. To define those may make the understanding of training methods and the direction Patriot Dogs Mission wants to proceed easier. Classical conditioning “is the process in which an automatic, conditioned response is paired with a specific stimuli” (www.ncbi.nim.nih.gov). The most famous example of this is Pavlov’s theory which suggests that emotional responses can be conditioned when stimuli influences behavior based on past experiences. Operant conditioning “is a process by which humans and animals learn to behave in such a way as to obtain rewards or avoid punishment” (www.scholarpedia.org). While using operant conditioning, many trainers confuse the term behavior-suppressing or negative reinforcement with punishment which can lead to inflicting pain when it is interpreted as a punishment. Patriot Dogs Mission is to embrace these basic theories and provide much needed working dogs to the communities within the United States worked in a humane manner.

Vision

A better world by unleashing the old power of humans and dogs living and working together

Mission

Bringing professional knowledge together so the right dog goes to the right person and that both thrive and make our community better in the meantime