06/03/2026
I remember, may have been 7 or 8 years ago, heck, it could have been more than that LOL.. it seems I have no concept of time anymore. Five of my clients that had a real struggle with recall and deescalating their dog within situational distractions, (not the high level, extreme reactive/aggressive dog of course, because that would be reckless) I had them meet up at a dog park, yes, a dog park, and every one of them only had one session, I think one of them might have had two. We sent all the dogs into the park without leashes. E-collars were on, but never used...Each and every client had been taught the descalation and recall from me...There were also multiple dogs that weren't part of my clientele. Off they went, when their dogs would get a little pushy, they would give a verbal command and the dog would stop. Every single one of them did...When they were off in the distance and the client called their dog back, they recalled right back to their human. Every one of them. So don't be too impressed when a dog trainer has a dog, with no real environmental distractions, and calls them over and they do. Be impressed when the dog trainers clientele can do it amongst a s**t ton of environmental distractions... isn't that what you want? For YOU to be able to do that... in the real world? I always witness the strange relation of people liking, commenting and engaging on a post that's literally someone calling a dog over to them with no distractions. I remember putting the video up and there were crickets. Had like three likes. It was only up for a few days though because, one of the humans didn't want their dog shown on the video because their dog was a rescue and I wasn't on the training list lol. Isn't that freakin' weird too? Not on the training list lol. The rescue's literally tell people to not use me because I'm not a positive reinforcement only trainer. Yet, I prove time and time again that my approach, and experience truly makes huge changes with the dog and the human 🤷 y'all have a super fantastic day...WOOF!!@