10/27/2025
Be the change your dog needs! 🙌
The reason I am sitting here posting this today, is because of the dog in the picture. Meet Ryott. Ryott came to me almost 6 years ago, as a 2 year old unruly dog with some pretty serious behavior issues. She was not only dominant, but aggressive, reactive, HORRIBLE manners, etc. A laundry list.
If you’ve worked with me at all, you have heard of Ryott!
Fast forward to today. She is a totally different dog. She’s the dog that helps me with Board and Train dogs and is a demo dog for 1:1 lessons. She’s an AWESOME dog, but she didn’t just land in my home and miraculously all of those behaviors stopped. Quite the contrary. She came here and I was the one that had to change in order to help her. I had to throw out almost everything I knew about dog training and kind of start over. I had worked with a couple different trainers but no matter what I was told, it wasn’t a quick fix. It was consistency of time and effort and CHANGE on my part that not only gave me the results I wanted, but the results Ryott needed.
When your dog trainer, whether it’s myself or someone else, tells you there need to be changes made and there WILL be work involved on your end, no matter which training avenue you choose, the worst thing you can possibly do is ignore those instructions and take the reigns into your own hands. From basic obedience to behavior modification, YOU are responsible for making the changes, big or small, in order to set your dog up for success. If it were easy and there were “quick fixes” without any changes being made, everyone would have well behaved dogs without behavior issues. You want to lose 10 pounds, get healthier, improve something about yourself, get better at a hobby? Give up smoking, drinking, etc.? Changes need to be made. It’s the same with our dogs. You can’t change your dog’s behavior if you’re not willing to change something about yourself and the way you currently co-exist with your dog in order for that to happen.