Alpine German Shepherds, LLC

09/01/2025

Happy Birthday babies🥳🥹🥹🥹🥹

09/01/2025

Vito on vacation at Possum Trot Oasis🐶🤠🫶🏻
See the tongue for me 😂😂
Perfect song, son

08/29/2025

The biggest variable in dog training can’t be tallied on a data sheet: relationship and leadership.

Most studies on rewards and punishments pretend these don’t exist. They reduce training to inputs and outputs, as if dogs were machines.

But behavior change in the real world depends on whether a dog sees their human as both safe haven and trusted leader. Without that, even the best techniques can fall flat.

That’s why research that ignores relationship will always miss the point.

👉 In my latest blog post, I explain why reward and punishment studies miss the point—and what that means for those of us working in the real world of dogs and families.

Read it here 👇🏼
https://tylermuto.com/2025/08/28/how-reward-and-punishment-studies-miss-the-point/

08/28/2025

❤️❤️❤️Freyr💟💟💟
Alpine’s Pebbles/Knox handsome boy❣️

Mr Freyr is a pretty proud poppa.

08/26/2025

Post vet trip to TSC 🥰
Not buying anything; just socializing 😎

08/23/2025

Vito and Evie are gangsters in disguise 🥸 😅🤣🐾