K9 Friends (2025)

25/06/2025

Preach the word of doggo! 🐾🐾🐾🥰😍

18/06/2025

A smile is worth a thousand words, right Bowdie? 😍🐾🐾🐾

25/04/2025

PREACH! 😍 Let’s say it again and loudly for those in the back:

VETS 👏🏽 ARE NOT 👏🏽 REPUTABLE 👏🏽 KNOWLEDGEABLE 👏🏽 SKILLED 👏🏽 DOG TRAINERS! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

The amount of clients I’ve worked with over the years who’ve shared with me that…

1/ Their vets have criticized/shamed/guilt-tripped them over the training/tools they use.

2/ Their vets recommended they only use a positive-only/force-free approach.

3/ Their vets have referred them to a positive-only/force-free trainer, or worse, a veterinary behaviorist.

4/ Their vets have recommended medication for behavior issues as the first response.

5/ Their vets have told them they aren’t allowed to bring their dogs in to the office with certain training tools — because they’re now “fear-free”.

…would make your head spin.

Vets aren’t trainers. Which makes it terribly unethical for them to offer training advice and training critiques. What they are, by and large, are solid medical doctors who are highly skilled in their actual line of work as veterinarians — but who have sadly been completely indoctrinated by the culture that has engulfed the veterinary world.

As for veterinary behaviorists, they are even more deeply indoctrinated. They will happily charge you thousands of dollars, take extensive useless histories, give extensive useless “training” protocols, prescribe extensive useless (but likely harmful) meds, never actually touch your dog, and then recommend euthanasia when it all mysteriously doesn’t work. They are the great charlatans of the dog training world — but the credentials and fancy lingo sure look and sound good… and they happily leverage them to you and your dog’s detriment.

So if we can stand back and actually see that these professionals are deeply indoctrinated (brainwashed), and that their ability to see and work with reality has been, in most cases, completely derailed, then we should be able to clearly see that they’re the last people you should be getting your training advice from.

My suggestion? Do the hard work of searching out training professionals with mountains of evidence of their work actually training dogs, and mountains of testimonials supporting that evidence. And please, stop allowing your local vet to be the arbiter of training wisdom, or to bully, guilt, influence you. Their skills lie in the medical treatment of your dog, not in the training treatment. Even if their hubris gets in the way of that acknowledgement.