by Doug | Sep 7, 2024 | Opinion
Evidence Is Seen or Heard All the answers to all dog questions will never be provided in a single sentence. If you think they can, then go find a dog treat to chew on. No Intelligent Answers Have Pictures of P00p in Them No, intelligent answer is ever going to come...
by Doug | Sep 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
How Do Humans See Training? Humans think it’s “fix or train the dog,” or 1. My job is to get them thinking it’s possibly both “fix and train the dog,” or “fix train the human,” or 2. When I’ve done my job, clients figure out how the human’s at the crux of all their...
by Doug | Aug 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Having a relaxed dog is best. Having a voluntarily submissive dog is best. Both keep your dog’s energy levels low, paradoxically reinforcing their low energy levels, and keeping problems at bay since problems appear when their energy levels are high. Problems appear...
by Doug | Jul 24, 2024 | Assumptions, Control, Foundations, non-physical brain, non-physical mind, RDL, Submission, the physical dog
First things first: we have to talk about our assumptions and our foundations on which we think—they’re infinite, and that’s bad. I call my approach Reflective Dog Leadership, or RDL. In my model, there’s three parts to all dogs: the physical dog you...
by Doug | Jul 15, 2024 | Obedience
Obedience Can’t Be Trained nor Measured Traditional training says “teach a dog some tricks and commands, and you’ll have a dog with ‘the basics’ in place, and you’ll have an obedient dog.” This, however, begs the elephant-in-the-room question, “based on...
