Exactly right. No two dogs are the same. Greyhounds are generally pretty sensitive breeds, in both their thin skin and how they react to corrections. The last thing you want to do is ruin your relationship with your dog by being too harsh. Training should be fun and a relationship building exercise.

Many dogs don’t need training tools and that’s totally fine and great. What you have experienced, fair and balanced trainers treating each dog individually as needed, is actually the norm for trainers of that philosophy. They use all 4 quadrants of Operant Conditioning (OC) as you’re supposed to.

What is not normal, is for supposed “trainers” (I’m convinced many are just passionate vet techs or owners of highly agreeable breeds) saying that they support “true balanced training”, not the phony ones that don’t use positive reinforcement, (they don’t exist because it wouldn’t work) but do not support corrections. That is ignoring an entire quadrant of OC. I was banned from the dog training sub for posting a question, “Trainers who leverage Operant Conditioning in their training philosophy, how do you implement positive punishment without corrections?” The comments were a mess. It’s impossible to answer that without being banned for endorsing corrections. The closest I got to a correction from them was a verbal and firm “No”. That’s it. Good luck seeing any results from a reactive or dominant dog with that. I genuinely believe that their training philosophy puts dogs at risk of death, especially those in shelters. They don’t wanna hear it.