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Dog Training + Rehab Center
6000 Square FT Center
Rehabilitating Dog and Humans
Obedience Classes
Guided Hikes / Events
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Watertown, CT
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11/13/2026

What makes the E-collar ethical!

11/13/2026

The most fair and helpful thing that you can be for your dog is honest, and the behavioral process creates a very simple experience of causation for which the dog can start to own and feel responsible for their own experience by connecting their decision to the outcome. I’ll make another video on that topic specifically, but that is the path to confidence.

11/13/2026

ATTENTION: Keyboard Experts. (Y’all get the PG version. My training team told me I couldn’t post it the way it was, so I had to cut some honest and necessary words out unfortunately, but here’s my take on the keyboard trainers and the experts living in their mom’s basement.)

11/13/2026

Generally, I don’t distract the dog or redirect their attention. This is mostly because I rehabilitate dogs for a living and rehab is predicated on needing to solve an already established problem. Learned unhealthy behaviors MUST lose their value to be practiced less often. Distraction does have a place in puppies and in reminding dogs of little things they may forget or getting the dog refocused during training. But not in problem solving rehearsed unhealthy behaviors. Redirection can POSSIBLY help to avoid a MILD behavior, but you will need to turn your life into a circus and you the clown to keep up. Pressure devalues the behavior. Good pressure devalues the behavior for next time as well.

11/12/2026

The most popular and misunderstood way to avoid or handle resource guarding is to put our hands in the bowl so that the dog gets used to us harassing them while they eat. This is in fact the most guaranteed way to create resource guarding because we make the dog feel unsafe and uncomfortable eating. A much better approach is to come to the dog while they’re eating and throw something of value in the bowl and skate out. This creates a positive association with our closer proximity to them eating and they begin to welcome us into their space while they eat. Another healthy technique is to use the dog’s dinner for training and feed them handfuls while working them in some very basic obedience.

11/12/2026

Talking MUZZLES with my seminar clients in Massachusetts.

11/12/2026

We’re in Massachusetts doing a two-day in-home private seminar to help this family with their island dog from Aruba with a bite history who is filled with fear, anxiety, and nervousness. We’ve worked with hundreds of island dogs from all over the world and even had trainers go to Aruba to work with a few local rescues. We love our island dogs.

11/12/2026

I was good with dogs before learning how to help other people be good with dogs. After years of reading self-help books and discovering the four agreements, I realized that I needed to create my own version, but specific, to dogs and dog ownership to help people understand how to apply the philosophies and psychology that I was already teaching.

11/12/2026

Obedience could have saved this dogs face. But not without relationship. Obedience is only as reliable as the relationship is healthy between you and your dog.

11/12/2026

For most dog owners, obedience is something to show off at a family picnic. Really, obedience is your relationship.

The idea that your dog is willing to lay still for 180 minutes while you stroke them, hand feed them popcorn and watch an entire Harry Potter movie isn’t proof of love or respect.

Love and respect is shown brightly when you call them back from chasing wildlife into the woods or when your on a walk and you pass a rude dog inside their electric fence abour dog is willing to stay engaged with you or when you’re having company and they can “place” and give you room to socialize and not be a terror.

Obedience isn’t a party trick. It’s a result of a healthy relationship and work. Training and reps.

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Watertown, CT
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