by Doug | Feb 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
There’s an unfortunate chicken ’n’ egg piece of misinformation about commands the intrinsic value of commands the importance of the learning of the commands and the essential need for owners to put their dogs through the paces of learning commands That...
by Doug | Dec 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Someone asked: Do you know how to get a dog that’s scared of everything to not be? We have two other dogs she’s with and the other dogs are fine around us. The scared one will not trust us. The scared one does like the other two. BNBR, what’s your model for your...
by Doug | Nov 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
…because the dog’s behavior is its communication. “Huh?” you say? Behavior = Communication = Relationship Humans have words and sentences. Dogs have behaviors and sequences of behaviors. If you want a dog to behave differently, start a different conversation....
by Doug | Jan 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Obedience Cannot Be Taught We get lost talking about obedience. Here’s an interesting and different way to look at it. There’s No Agreement About What Obedience Is We all want our dogs to be obedient. However, were I to ask a dozen different people, “‘What is...
by Doug | Jun 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
What Makes Nature Do the Things She Does, or Why E-collars Fail By the time you’re done reading this, you’ll better understand how Nature works, and you’ll better understand what makes your dog do some of the things they do. Thinking through...
