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 with their dogs. Crossing that line, their nose dries up (we’ll touch on that again, later1).
Nature—knowing one of Her animals has lost its nose as a sensory input—compensates by making the ears hypersensitive. EVERY LITTLE SOUND gets hyper-attention. That’s your dog becoming WILD. In your home, it’s protecting itself as if it were in the wild—24/7.
That’s bad.
The DOuGTrainer teaches you that patience restores the cold, wet nose through the attention your dog needs. Your patience makes their eyes water. Watery eyes moistens the nose. The nasal passages get moist. Their nose starts working again. Their nose turns cold and wet.
Here’s the best part: with a cold, wet nose, hypersensitive hearing goes away.
Here’s an even better part: with hypersensitive hearing gone, they pay more attention to you and the tone of your voice. Their energy level decreases.
Their brains show up. Their out-of-control behaviors disappear. They become obedient. Obedience isn’t training the dog—obedience is you keeping their energy range low.
The rewetting of the nose gets undone by eye contact—the crossing of that prior line mentioned at the beginning.1
Time to read this over again…
Respectfully submitted.
Doug Parker
The DOuGTrainer