08/07/2025
Well worth a read from author and dog expert L*z Graham but if you're never prepared to tell your dog NO, get a Lassie book.
Until you’ve conditioned the word, ‘no’ has absolutely no meaning whatsoever to your puppy.
As a child we learn what ‘no’ means from our parents as they use it along with a negative consequence, either removing us from something or something from us, then as we get older they may reason us out of doing something but generally, it’s a case of “no, don’t do that” or “no, don’t do that because...”
Unfortunately, your puppy has absolutely no concept of reasoning and neither will your adult dog.
The part of the brain that deals with reasoning and starts to develop in us when we’re about three years old doesn’t, and never will, exist in the canine brain. This is why we have to be absolutely consistent with what we tell our dogs to do and why we have to be very black and white with no shades of grey.
An excerpt of Manners not Mayhem (2018)
by L*z Graham MA.
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