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Narratives

Long and complicated to explain and work through, but once it’s understood, it becomes immediately clear why narratives fail, why labeling fails, why creating a title for a collection of things is unclear until its composition is purposely stated and confirmed....

Define Your Foundation

Traditional Training Foundation Traditional training and traditional trainers don’t assess the dog‘s background, energy level, behavioral baggage, or unwanted behavioral evidence. They immediately being efforts to change the package we call the dog....

Quick Fixes

The horribly impatient, broken culture demands that everything has to have a solution that can be delivered quickly, that if it’s not delivered quickly—without even having an understanding of how the thing is accomplished, whatever it may be—then the lack of its...

Wagging Tail

A wagging tail does NOT mean you have a happy dog. If you believe that—if you believe that a wagging tail means you have a happy dog—we have to part ways. There’s nothing wrong with parting ways. There’s nothing wrong with having differing opinions....

“Old Dogs”

Old dogs don’t die; they can’t. They’ve merely run up ahead; they’re waiting for us just out of sight. Close your eyes late at night and you may smell his musky odor, or perhaps hear his snuffle from the next room. Pay attention and you may feel his nose on your hand...