Apparantly not! :P
I don't think I'll have a problem establishing my point that dog training is an art. I don't care much for writing, but I'm notorious for being able to manipulate words and ideas and putting it down on paper and adding alot of fluff to make it sound good. I wrote an essay on a book once that I didn't read and got an A on it. I used nothing but cliff notes and didn't even read the entire cliff notes book either for that matter. This was after the teacher told us that doing that wouldn't work
But with dog training, I can be really creative......I'm all positive reinforcement, but not every positive method you find in the books will work in every case. This is when the gift of being able to think outside the box comes in handy and you can find a different approach while still using positive reinforcement. I've worked with parrots a little, most bird behaviorists will tell you once a screamer, always a screamer. I believe that I'm the first person to come up with a proven effective way to cure a screamer of screaming, all positive reinforcement.