Model SITIzen Canine

01/01/2026

12/29/2025

Small things snowball quickly if they arent addressed.

With rare exception (true genetic anomalies), severe aggression, reactivity, separation anxiety, resource guarding, and chronic fear don’t just appear. They are practiced into existence.

This matters—whether your goal is to prevent these problems entirely or you’re already working to reverse them.

There are two main reasons these issues develop:

1. The early signs are subtle. Because most people don’t understand how serious behavior problems are built—and hope the behavior is a phase—they don’t treat those early moments as something that requires action.

2. Owners do notice the early warning signs and do understand where they can lead—but they don’t know how to address them correctly.

The critical takeaway: the worst behavior problems are built slowly, by humans. Your responsibility is to understand how that snowball forms—and how to stop it. Simple. Not easy.

Follow trainers who teach clear, logical, common-sense principles—and who consistently demonstrate results that reflect that logic.

TLDR: the bad stuff is created drip by drip by drip. It’s also reversed the exact same way.

12/29/2025

This is SO spot on!

12/27/2025

State of mind matters so much!

This stuff is so simple, and so obvious, and so common sense-based… the problem is, we’ve allowed a bunch of status seeking, inexperienced, ideologically possessed bozos (pick one) to hijack the popular/accepted training narrative, and now what should be simple, obvious, and common sense is anything but.

Here’s the simple truth — truth that everyone knew up until 5 minutes ago — first you have to stop the unwanted behavior, and then, once space has been created by disrupting/pausing the typical emotional response/cycle, the dog can then develop a new feeling, and thus a new and far healthier response to the very same stimuli.

After several thousand dogs and close to 20 years of training experience, I can assure you that this simple training/behavior mod blueprint works… over and over and over… even with the most difficult dogs.

Sadly the dog training world — both trainers and owners — aren’t interested in simple and effective answers. And so dogs and owners will continue to struggle — not because the answers aren’t available, but because effective simplicity doesn’t capture the imagination or feed the excuses… or sustain training modalities which depend on obfuscation to appear viable and legitimate.

12/27/2025

Absolutely! Please stop saying fat dogs are cute, theyre unhealthy and have shorter life spans and more medical problems! If you love your dog, keep them fit!

12/23/2025

Bingo!

12/23/2025

Miss Mable working hard!

12/23/2025

Welcome Miss Willow to training! Willow struggles with some pretty gnarly insecure feelings about any place outside of home. Air is scary, Leaves blowing by may be dangerous, not to mention the scary dead sticks in the trainer ladys yard. We are going to start out by showing Miss Willow that she can trust us to lead the way so we will be spending some time working on creating some good coping mechanisms..

12/16/2025

Welcome Miss Mabel!!! This 6 month old Vizsla is here to learn that not everything belongs to her. Shes shown a bit of resource guarding behaviors that we definitely want to get under control now rather than later.

Shes a smart little girl whos owner sees her potential and wants to find a clear way to communicate with her. First we have to start getting her noodle to focus and settle her nervous system so we can begin to actually teach her appropriate responses when shes unsure. Cant wait to see her be her best self.