Dog Dojo
Here's the thing: If you want a real way to raise a great dog, then I have something to show you. I offer everything from phone consultations to full service, nose-to-tail relationships, and while I can't say I've "fixed" every dog I've ever met, I know I've helped them and their families go as far as they wanted or were ready to go. The way I work with people and dogs comes down to a few simple ideas:
- Behavior is no more random in dogs than it is in people.
- Behavior is the expression the effects of an amount of energy on a "state of being."
- By focusing our attention on the "state of being," or character, and the energy that effects it, we can affect real, and permanent change.
And by change, I don't mean making them something that they are not...rather, I, mean eliciting, from them, the best of who they are...which is, not so coincidentally, exactly the way we hope they will be. You see... I don't think we have ever really trained dogs. I think they trained us and now we have a group of expectations of behaviors that we recognize as the result of training. That's not training! That is just how a dog will act in a house when the dog is operating from a position of well-formedness or well-being. This is a dog's natural state. And, we can all safely assume that dogs function best in their natural state. The things that we call, "bad behavior," like destructive chewing, inappropriate aggression, etc. should be a signal to let us know when our dogs get off track. What's really happening is that they take on one or a series of ideas that cause them to "go" in a way which reads like, "nervous," or "aggressive, or "overly affectionate." When this happens, rather than responding to the behavior (the symptom) I go right to the structure (the source) and address the concern, quickly and without correction.
Our real job, then, is to create the circumstances for well-formedness to occur. And believe me this is more effective, less time consuming, and substantially more rewarding than anything that you can do with a cookie.
please help.
