18/07/2025
I will not mention his name (I did not ask his permission), but a 30 year trainer recently summed up his learning, during class, in RBBM and Art of Leash Handling classes this way:
He was using one of his dogs for the experience.
“For 8 years I had a dog, now I have a partner”
That is very significant and a massive realization.
Over the years of teaching, I have received so many messages from people who have learned from me. Every one of them is important to me. I take them as private communication with me only. I do not use them as a marketing tool and post about how others love me and how great I am. That is a break of trust for the people who wished to remain private. It cheapens everything down to “how can I use this for me”. I detest that.
Some people actually get mad at me for not heavily marketing and making myself “popular” or well known. To me, those are tricks of the mind to appeal to certain base level aspects of human ego. I will not do that.
If what I teach, and the way I teach, reaches you and is valuable to you, you will tell others. That type of “marketing” is totally honest and carries weight and time beyond temporary methods of advertising. It comes from the people who have actually learned something, and find it valuable.
That is the only way I have ever worked. It is how I will continue. I know I wont ever have hundreds of thousands of followers looking for the next shiny thing. What this begets is a group of people who actually want to know more. And that is what i try to provide. More. More information , more understanding, more inspiration , more -
I cannot tell you how honored and humbled I am for each and every person who has made the effort to learn from what I attempt to teach. In ways, although I have been teaching subjects for more than 45 years, I feel I am just beginning to learn to reach humans.
I just wanted to say thank you. I do not take any of this for granted.
