This is very subjective, but my idea of the difference is that a dog
trainer gives a dog the tools he needs and a dog
handler gets to use them to the extent needed to get from point A to point B.
A good dog trainer may not necessarily be a good INSTRUCTOR of PEOPLE, or they may be...and a dog trainer is anyone who works with a dog....teaching, proofing, correcting. They may be good or they may be lousy at it. Handling and training coexist when the leash is in your hand, and a transition from one to the other and back again is fluid, flexible and determined by circumstance...I hope somebody else understands what I just said!
