How are YOU reacting to your dog's behavior? As humans, we tend to focus on our dogs' behavior but often forget to pay attention to our own behavior and reactions. Creating a fixed space for your dog to relax and practice impulse control is essential to creating a balanced dog. The goal is to create a calm, neutral state of mind where our dog doesn't feel the need to react to everything happening around them. An example is the story I posted the other day where I had all my dogs on place while t

Bringing a puppy home to solve the behavior problems your current dog has is not a great idea. I've seen this numerous times throughout my career where the current dog in the home has behavior issues, so the human rationalizes that their dog "needs a friend." They bring home a puppy who studies how the current dog behaves with the humans and in the home. What usually happens is two dogs with behavior problems and double the amount of work to bring the dogs back to balance. People can get lucky a