08/27/2026
This! 💜🐾🐾
The best choices? They last about two seconds.
Blink and they're over.
Worse still we miss them or dismiss them as "nothing".
They were going to rush through the door.
But paused.
They were watching something across the road.
Then looked back at you.
They were pacing around the house.
Then stopped, lay down and settled.
They were excited and jumping out of their skin to greet someone.
But those four paws stayed exactly where they were, on the ground.
Nothing dramatic happened. Except it did!
It really did.
There was no asking for it.
No big training moment.
Nobody necessarily even noticed.
But your dog just made a choice.
And a brilliant one at that.
And those tiny choices they make can be incredibly telling, especially if you've been working on some behaviour that isn't wanted.
Well guess what?
They just gave you the behaviour you’ve been looking for.
And it’s so easy to miss.
That spontaneous glance back at you?
Absolutely worth noticing.
The pause before rushing forward?
Worth noticing.
Choosing to settle when they could have carried on?
Yup, just look at what they did!
Oh that's some rewardable stuff right there, in action.
When something great happens naturally and we reinforce it, we can make that behaviour more likely to happen again, and again, and again.
And eventually those little tiny, easily missed choices can become choices your dog makes more often.
Not because you told them what to do.
And THAT is the "secret sauce" in action right there.
Have you started to see the secret sauce yet? What brilliant little choices has your dog started making?
