13/02/2025
Over my 28 years of "owner training" there are other problems apart from aggressive behaviour. There is a flip side. And that is the staggering amount of dog owners that have been burgled. The intruders have grabbed the car keys and taken off in the family car. When I ask the owners the whereabouts of their dog when this happened 8 out of 10 tell me that it was asleep on their bed or snoring on someone else's bed and didn't hear a thing. Owners spoil their dogs. Dogs will take everything you give them, and like a spoilt child they give naff-all back. My visits are not to turn their dog into a guard dog because they already have one but didn't know it. My job is to put back the structure which has been taken away. We have effectively taken the dog out of the dog and turned it into a wuss. ( That is a technical term for not up to the job). And we are paying a high price for it one way or the other. But like all dog problems they can be put right in no time at all.
