by Doug | Mar 18, 2024 | Training
How Do You and Your Dog Relate? Executive Summary Question: What happens in relationships? You and Your Dog Spoiler: choose Nature. What holistic foundation do you follow for you and your #dog? Have you ever even thought about it? I’ll venture probably not—our...
by Doug | Feb 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
It’s complicated, but here we go… Respectfully, you have a flawed model for canine leadership. Dogs don’t care who feeds them. Dogs don’t care who takes care of them. Dogs don’t like it when you’re “nice” to them.[1] (IMHO, it’s not so much about choosing to like or...
by Doug | Feb 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Cold, Wet Noses and Its Connection to a Dog’s Hypersensitivity to Sounds If your doodle reacts to every little sound around the house, I’ll challenge most of you to check their noses and mouths, and to think about Nature and how Nature has wild animals behave in...
by Doug | Feb 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Doodles and Tail Wagging What if “a wagging tail” confirms a dog’s high energy? What if a dog’s “high energy” is a bad thing? What if their high energies bring behavior problems? What about Nature’s wild animals all having high energy levels? Wagging...
by Doug | Feb 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
BNBR, wild animals are wild. That’s just common sense. Unrelated, yet related question: what’s your model for a dog’s being wild or not-wild? It’s not insignificant. If you don’t have a holistic model for how a dog can be, at any time, all through its life, then your...
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...
