06/26/2025
Your Dog Didn’t Forget. You Just Never Taught It Right.
Most dog owners think their dog is being stubborn when they stop listening outside the house.
Newsflash: they’re not defiant — they’re confused.
It’s called contextual shift, and it ruins more training progress than anything else.
Dogs don’t generalize like humans.
A flawless “sit” in the kitchen doesn’t translate to the sidewalk, the vet’s office, or the brewery patio — unless you teach it in each of those places.
Your dog’s not being difficult.
They’re trying to figure out if the rules changed just because the environment did.
If you didn’t work your commands in different locations, around different distractions, and under different levels of pressure…
You didn’t finish the job.
It’s not stubbornness.
It’s a lack of reps.
It’s a lack of clarity.
It’s a lack of proofing.
At Unrivaled K9, we train obedience that travels — not just sits pretty on your living room floor.
So the next time your dog “forgets” a cue in public?
Ask yourself:
❌ Did I actually train it in this context?
❌ Did I reinforce it when the environment changed?
❌ Or am I expecting my dog to behave perfectly without being shown how?
💡 That’s not on them. That’s on the process.
Let us show you how to get it right — and make obedience real-world reliable.
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