Holy Sit Dog Training

11/29/2025

Some info on the Ontario government's proposed legislation on dogs in research.

11/19/2025

Besties, guarding the neighborhood from cats, squirrels, and delivery people.

11/18/2025

Practicing Recall and playing in the first big snowfall!

11/17/2025

Why does your dog want you to hold the toy while they chew?

11/17/2025

Working on Hammy's barking at other dogs. Based on Kiki Yablon's Thank You For Barking.

11/12/2025

How I S***k Dogs for Training

11/10/2025

Hammy is staying with us this week. He gets super frustrated when I show affection to Nana so here we are practicing sharing me!

11/03/2025

✅️ How to catch a positive dog trainer.

08/26/2025

Updates here: https://buff.ly/2QQhOPB

Love you all for your ongoing support!

08/23/2025

08/19/2025

"Dogs can be treated more roughly than humans because they have thicker skin / a higher pain tolerance."

❌ This is a difficult position for an educated dog trainer to have and an impossible one to defend. But you've probably heard it before. I heard it again just now.

🧑‍🏫 Not only do dogs have thinner skin that humans, it is significantly thinner. All available evidence points to dogs having MORE sensitive skin than humans and not less. This is because of having fewer layers and a different PH level.

Human skin has also been largely exposed to the elements for quite some time in our evolution while dog skin has always been protected by fur.

While I cannot find any solid research on pain tolerance on dogs (imagine how inhumane that research would have to be) we do know that the canine nervous system processes pain in a very comparable way to humans.

The belief that dogs are more tolerant to pain is due to a combination of two factors:

1) Dogs have lower physical responses to pain; and
2) Humans are generally bad at reading dog body language in general and even worse at noticing subtle signs of pain.

Surely, dogs being more stoic (something we bred them for) than us is not license to cause pain.

Surely, our ignorance of their communication is not license to cause pain.

There are better ways to help your dog.

08/18/2025

Update on the St. Joseph's dogs!