by Doug | Jun 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Looking Downstream, Looking Upstream Question: I read somewhere that dogs naturally sleep 18 hours a day. Is it cause for concern if your dog sleeps a lot but is energetic when she’s awake? Answer: THIMKING caps on. I can give you my opinion. I can table my...
by Doug | Feb 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
You can think of a dog as a radar, and you can think of them as a radar indicator. First of all, identify if the dog is in a high energy state where it’s paying attention to things that Nature is commanding. Otherwise figure out if it’s paying attention to...
by Doug | Oct 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
In my model, anthropomorphism is the creating of a label or narrative to explain an animal’s behavior. This definition makes anthropomorphism measurable. Without its measurability, its occurrence is vague, vaguely defined, and inaccurately detected and identified. If...
by Doug | Sep 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Someone asked: Why is my dog getting into moods where he’s unsettled, pacing, and whining? BNBR, being nice and being respectful, don’t ask “why.” What dogs do is what they’re saying. (Ask me about this!) So instead of their unsettledness, pacing, and whining being a...
by Doug | Sep 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
The best, common sense explanation for common sense is its shortest. “Experts” don’t do the determination—each person’s assessment does the determination. In that sense, experts don’t exist. Common sense involves moments of patient waiting—the dismissing of one’s own...
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...
