Graceful Touch: Canine Training & Rehabilitation

10/31/2025

Always remember tomake your pets best interest a priority!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, just remember with the latest trends of dogs being scared with Halloween costumes for fun, remember to secure your dogs in their crates or make sure they are secured before you open the door to trick or treat visitors 🎃

10/24/2025

When trainers hit a wall with a difficult dog, the instinct is to assume something’s missing - some secret technique or special sequence that more experienced trainers know. That belief sends them searching outward: another seminar, another online course, another tool to add to the belt.

But most breakthroughs don’t come from adding new layers. They come from deepening our understanding of the layers we already have. The fundamentals are rarely what fail us; it’s our inconsistency in applying them.

Mastery doesn’t live in hidden secrets. It lives in refinement.
In the patience to repeat simple mechanics until they’re invisible.
In the curiosity to question why a method works rather than just how.
In the humility to revisit first principles even years into a career.

Read the full post: The Builder and the Wind
https://tylermuto.com/2025/10/23/the-builder-and-the-wind/

10/21/2025

06/03/2025

04/30/2025

Spoiler alert...

Even dog trainers aren’t running around every morning shouting, "I can't wait to do some training!"

Training isn’t always convenient.

But neither is living with the same struggles forever.

Small choices today lead us to a whole different life later.

04/28/2025

So many owners fall into this mental/emotional trap, and they take their dogs with them.

Here’s the thing: What you perceive as being firm, strict, a “joy killer”, oppressive, and perhaps even tyrannical — if shared correctly is anything but.

All the rules, restrictions — and their enforcement — become the foundation in creating your dog’s clarity about what is and isn’t healthy/desired behavior, which helps them become dogs who CAN be included in daily life, and who CAN go anywhere.

They also provide your dog proper intervention from you via direction and structure — and yes consequences — for unhealthy behavior and lifestyle patterns that are directly connected to your dog being a stressed, anxious, overwhelmed, and freaked out mess.

So from one shift in our view and beliefs and actions (let’s call it the unapologetic leadership shift), we impact not only the outward behavior that greatly limits their lives as far as freedom and inclusion, but also the deleterious interior effects that living a chaotic life has on their mental state and nervous systems.

This is your near constant reminder that what so many of you think grants the gift of freedom and happiness (a hands-off, permissive, laissez-faire approach) almost always does the precise opposite.

It creates extremely messy, uncomfortable, and even dangerous dogs, who live terribly limited lives — all because of a mistaken human viewpoint. Often one that comes from a place of wanting the best, but not being able to see far enough downstream the effects their beliefs and approach are having on that which they love dearly.

As I always say, well behaved dogs live bigger lives. But I’d like to add, they also live much happier interior lives as well.
Something to think about the next time you find yourself viewing your dog’s chaotic behavior as them just being happy dogs. I promise, It’s anything but.

PS, I never write/speak directly from the dog’s point of view. It’s a rhetorical device that’s abused in the dog world to manipulate/elicit emotions via the dog’s first person narrative. But in this case it seemed appropriate.

04/07/2025

04/07/2025

Words of wisdom from the late Mo Lindley.