22/07/2025
I’ve been basically hiding the last year. I have Some days good, some days bad.
But I totally disengaged from dog training (apart from this little lady). The dog world has become too focused on ‘train the dog in front of you’ or getting them to do cues that really aren’t needed.
What I want to focus on is the communication. Something I’d ignored from my own dogs over the last year. Dogs guide us, dogs teach us, they tell us all sorts. But are we hearing it? Is the issue actually us. Is my mental health displaying through my dogs behaviours.
I spoke to a very good mentor last night in depth. Not really about dogs but the entire world behind it, why I haven’t grieved for banjo and Fyn hasn’t either, why I’ve lost my way with training. Quite a lot for my brain to process.
Things are changing. They have to. And I am going to find out how.
(Ps…this wasn’t an entire tub of peanut butter).
