11/29/2025
This! 🙌🏼
Wanna see a massive improvement in not only your dog’s behavior in general, but also, and perhaps most critically, in the way your dog views you and themselves?
Here’s some simple leadership tips that can massively change your life together with your dog. This stuff has fairly profound ripple effects.
Find the moments where your dog is overly aroused, highly jazzed up, and super pushy about… anything. I shared a partial list of super common stuff, but I’m sure you can find more.
When these moments occur, address your dog firmly (you have to have tools and techniques that are effective), and watch your dog’s behavior, attitude, and respect for you skyrocket.
I’ve seen very, very few owners with dog issues who address this stuff. Most either don’t know how, or most commonly, they don’t realize how important these seemingly inconsequential, “they’re just being a dog” moments are to creating a balanced dog and a healthy relationship.
Often, whether it’s at seminars, or our board and train programs, once we firmly address this stuff, the other behavior issues, or symptoms (reactivity, demand barking, hyper-territoriality, jumping on people, chaotic/pushy nonsense)… magically disappear.
Why? Because you create a self-aware dog. A dog who understands that their actions have consequences connected to them (and so they make better decisions in general), and a dog who understands that you are the one who shares those consequences… making you a relevant and respected leader.
And when these two dynamics come together, life with your dog gets a while let better. :)
