by Doug | Jul 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
How *Sweet* Can a Dog Be? It doesn’t matter how sweet a dog is, but it sort of does…. You have to take the time to figure out why that is. If ten people look at a puppy that just tilted its head, all ten people will tell me how sweet the dog looks. When I ask...
by Doug | Jun 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
From a Quora.com question, which I commented on. It’s lengthy and it’s complex, but it’s intended to awaken a part of our awareness and awarenesses that isn’t and aren’t yet aware. The Question “Why is my dog scared of the wall my bed is...
by Doug | Jun 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
“OBEDIENCE” TRAINING? Dog obedience can’t be trained. Dogs can’t be taught obedience. Obedience classes are almost—but not quite—a ruse. A lie. Well, not exactly a lie, but a collection of a lot of misinformation or partial thoughts about dogs and dog...
by Doug | Jun 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
When your dog reacts to EVERY, LITTLE, SOUND. This is long and sequential. Stick with it—it’ll be worth it. Dogs are born with cold, wet noses—working noses. Human schedules are so busy they unknowingly cross one of Nature’s lines: not enough interaction...
by Doug | Jun 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Surgeon General now recommends social media having a warning label to combat what he called an emergency mental health crisis amongst youth. No surprise there. Instead of simply saying “it needs a warning label,” GO INTO DETAIL ABOUT WHAT ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA MAKES...
by Doug | Jun 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
The claim: dogs can sense our feelings and emotions. Can you prove it? No. Can you have an opinion about it? Yes—absolutely! Can you promote your opinion as fact? No, but a lot of people do, and that’s a bigger problem than it appears at first sight. We’ll...
by Doug | Jun 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Questions hide hidden layers. “Learning that ‘questions hide hidden layers’” is yet another layer. Truly learning what has always been available to learn—but which you may not have learned… yet—is itself another layer that wakes up you, your observer, your observer of...
by Doug | May 25, 2024 | Training
BABY TALK—STOP USING IT WITH YOUR DOG With dogs, don’t use baby talk. Don’t—just don’t—and don’t shoot the messenger. We’re going down quite a series of rabbit holes—stick with it! High energy dogs are the dogs that have the problems. High energy dogs have problems...
by Doug | May 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
My friend—my dead friend. One little word told you that. My friend. or My late friend. We may not think about it, but in seemingly the smallest way, words have huge importance. Remind yourself and others around you that you’re in one of two camps. You’re either: an...
by Doug | May 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Socialization? To most, it’s “taking dogs on field trips to stores and exposing them to as many, different environments as possible.” The theory is that by familiarization and desensitization, they’ll become relaxed and submissive, and will be able to...
