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21/08/2025

How do I get my dog to stop doing [BEHAVIOR]?

The number 1 phrase any dog trainer experiences in their career.

Because that’s a lot of what dog training is!

The majority of dog owner don’t invest hundreds (sometimes thousands) of dollars plus tons of time into dog training because their dog is behaving perfectly already.

So here’s the thing…..

Most dog owners know what their dog likes.

✅ treats
✅ certain toys
✅ certain activities

….the issue arises when dog owners do not know how to LEVERAGE those things

Issues are further compounded when they don’t know how to reduce, mitigate and remove certain problematic (or even dangerous behaviors).

That’s where negative motivation comes into play with your dog training.

Think of yourself dear dog owner, what do you like to avoid?

🚫Speeding tickets?
🚫Getting fined?
🚫Arrested?
🚫Broken up with?
🚫Fired?
🚫Pain?
🚫Failing classes?

Our society has a wild array of negative motivators in place so everyone can go out into the public and feel safe.

These negative motivators are taught to us and conditioned in a multitude of ways.

Same things for our dogs!

Unconditioned aversive stimuli are things that dogs are born understanding.

Things like: hunger, pain, fear

Conditioned aversive stimuli are things that we intentionally teach the dog that aim to decrease the frequency and likelihood of a behavior.

- taking away the treat if they don’t do XYZ
- an ecollar correction
- not allowing the dog to interact with guests when they come over
- using spatial pressure
- social corrections

The key with both positive and negative motivators is that they ONLY work when you apply the 5 Pillars of dog training.

(Check my bio for that)

So for you and your dog, how well do you know them?

Can you easily write out your dogs hierarchy of motivators?

13/08/2025

Watched a video the other day of a trainer that was simply holding a leash as the dog tried to tear at the leash, alligator role, bark and thrash.

The trainer wasn’t doing anything more than not allow the dog to and attack another dog.

The trainer wasn’t yelling, ecollar correcting the snot out of the dog, wasn’t yanking at a prong collar, etc etc etc.

Yet if you open the comments, in they roll, predictable as the ticking of a clock

“ABUSE!”
“VOLATILE AGGRESSION!!!!!!”
“INHUMANE!!!”

Condemning this trainer who has done nothing more than hold a leash and not allow the dog to annihilate and absently murk another dog.

The “experts” smashing their face into a keyboard (no profile picture, no videos of working with dogs. Nothing) saying how this trainer is essentially trash and how it should have/could have been done.

That’s just 1 content piece from 1 trainer.

It would take you approximately 10 minutes or less to scroll and open up the comments and see some form of “you’re abusing the dog!!!”

Doesn’t matter how you train.

You’re not immune to this now diluted and antiquated insult.

It’s become so overused and misused that the very word has lost its meaning.

Parents not giving their toddler the box of donuts they wanted for breakfast at 5am which results in a meltdown?
- Abuse.

Parents telling pre-teens that they aren’t allowed to have their phone with them after 9pm and has to charge in the kitchen and as the parent they must know the password.
- ABUSE! Violation of privacy!!!

These words are so flippantly thrown around at anything and everything that when true abuse happens - the actual weight and horror is lost.

Language matters.
Accuracy matters.
Context matters.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

11/08/2025

The last one is actually my favorite one😂
But the first one is the most accurate ✅

16/07/2025

I’ll go first…

Before I became a professional dog trainer, I was just a dog owner with two “scary” dog breeds.

A Siberian husky and a GSD/Husky.

Someone reached out to me on my personal instagram because their GSD had killed some of their chickens.

They asked “does this mean that my dog is blooded and now has to be put down so they don’t start attacking humans?”

I didn’t respond back to the message because I didn’t know and meant to research it but kept forgetting. I’d remember at the most inconvenient of times like at 2am but it sat in the back of my mind of this THING that happens to dogs and my mind just kept it as a truth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In my anxiety and fear, for the longest time I was worried about this.

Yeah - friends. Family. I am here to inform you that it is NOT a thing that happens to dogs.

Keep your chickens safe tho!🐓🐣

Anyway, what’s your thing you beloved for forever?

Hands on the food cure resource guarding? Dog parks are great for socialization?

24/06/2025

Which one of you is the overstimulated one that’s going on a walk with the dog that loses their marbles and which one are you that gets to hear about the report when they get back? 😂

Tag your partner below!

16/06/2025

🥄 Spoons and dogs…what do these things have to do with each other?

Have you ever gone to work and come back and it’s like someone replaced your dog with an angry gremlin?

Maybe your dog lost some of the spoons they had while you were gone.

What a lot of people forget is that dogs have gone through a MASSIVE lifestyle transformation in a very short period of time.

It wasn’t that long ago that the majority dogs weren’t taken on walks and kept behind fences almost exclusively with zero other function.

Dogs roamed around the neighborhood and came back when it was time to sleep and eat. They were used frequently to accompany hunting teams.

Now we have dogs that rarely touch grass and pee/poop on concrete. Dogs that are put into costumes and strollers.

Am I saying these are evil things to do?

No.

What I am saying is that we forget that dogs in the short period of their evolution have gone through a massive and major shift in their life.

Something like thinking about the “spoon theory” can help you better understand Trigger Stacking and Thresholds.

It’s also a metaphor for how we as humans can also help thinking about our own energy expenditure.

Dogs with behavioral issues are likely running on a deficit of spoons many days.

Patience, training and understanding can go far for these dogs.

What do you think about your dog? If 5 spoons is maximum contentment - how many spoons does your dog usually wake up with?

05/06/2025

Tbh these are just my Amazon wish lists put into meme form 🤣 what trap got you? 👀

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