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24/11/2025

Helping dog “un-trainers”

Here’s the truth: no one is going to care more about your dogs training then you will.

(Except maybe your dog trainer)

So how do you get “buy in” from other people?

1) Bring them is as a solution to a “common enemy”
🧠 many people want to be of value and make an impact. But many don’t participate in change because:
- they don’t know what the end goal is
- they don’t know why it is important
- they feel like what they do doesn’t matter

2) They been talked AT but not guided WITH
🧠 break it down simple! Show in small steps, explain importance, have them show it back to you, fine-tune.

3) You’re working against their learning language
🧠 many people don’t do well with just auditory instruction. Break it down with visuals. Create visual cues that are seen CONSTANTLY but passively throughout the day (like a fridge)

4) You need consequences.
🧠 negative consequences can drive behavior change just as much as positive consequences.
I’d argue most drivers don’t drive the speed limit because they’re thinking about safety and comfort of others on the road.
They do it because they don’t want to get a speeding ticket.

What about you?

What have you done for dog “un-trainers” in your life?

To be clear it doesn’t mean you WONT find success. A part of dog training especially when you have a reactive dog for ex...
22/11/2025

To be clear it doesn’t mean you WONT find success. A part of dog training especially when you have a reactive dog for example, is having courage.

To feel the fear and do it anyway.

A part of “faking it till you make it” is presenting physical cues even if you feel a lot of emotional turmoil inside.

If you’ve ever worked with a dog trainer with your dog, you’ve watched how your dog effortlessly seems to respond to them.

Sure, there’s some other factors there but the most immediate answer to how to get your dog to behave like that around you is to:

- Slow and be intentional with your movements and avoid being fidgety
- Drop your shoulders from where they are glued to your ears
- Breathe into your belly instead of your chest
- Drop your voice octave so it’s not so high pitched and strained
- Ensure your hands aren’t coming up above your waist as you unintentionally start putting tension on the leash

These acts of awareness of your own arousal state can positively benefit your dog as well!

For you, do you notice yourself doing any of these things while walking or training your dog?

20/11/2025

It do be like that 🥲

20/11/2025

Reactive dog owners should use this pattern cycle:

👀See ✅Mark 💪🏽Do

Reactivity is a pattern.

And when you have a behavior, if you want to remove that behabior you then have to fill that hole the behavior leaves behind.

If you don’t fill that hole, then the dog has no framework to operate inside of and that’s why many reactive dog owners get less than ideal results.

So instead you should replace that reactive pattern with a different pattern instead.

By the way, this isn’t a “starting point”

The starting point is ensuring that the dog will eat food or play with you outside (if you’re not sure how to do that I have my “Relationship Reset Bootcamp” available in the Learning Lab.

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19/11/2025

There’s something called the “Highchair Theory”

Which essentially is this situation where a newly adopted dog is fearful and will run away and hide from the mom, dad, and two children….

…but not the baby in the high chair.

Why?🤔

Because the baby expects nothing.

No trying to talk high pitched, hands reaching forward and too much social pressure.

Nah.

That baby simply sits in a highchair and food is thrown about everywhere.

No prerequisites to getting the food.
No requirement to come close.
No demands for interaction.

Too many people try and force dogs into interaction AND IT HAS GOOD INTENTIONS.

This information is not to shame you.

I am brining to light something that on the surface seemingly makes sense BUT it can be done incorrectly.

And how can you do better if you do not know better?

What about you? Have you been guilty of doing this with dogs? Maybe even reached your hand out for a dog to “smell” when first meeting them?

18/11/2025

Reactive dog biggest mistake: thinking it’s purely an obedience issue instead of recognizing it’s an emotional issue.

Two truths. One big explosive behavior.

A few posts back I posted this emotions wheel I made if you want to snag it for reference!

17/11/2025

Disclaimer: you also (personally) need to have a similar personality as a human

Kidding kidding!😂😂😂

Sort of lmao

Credit:

17/11/2025

Is this called: capturing, free-shaping or prompting in dog training?

Big mistake I see many dog owners make:

👎🏽only seeing “bad” behavior and never the “good”

As a professional dog trainer, the first several sessions I’m with a dog during my board and train programs is existing together and rewarding good choices.

The first few days have very little talking.

I’m not doing obedience. I’m not trying to do commands.

No - instead I am slowing them down, giving them time to think and when they offer a behavior, I reward it.

There’s a time and place for formal obedience, but I want the dog to recognize and realize that I am paying attention to them, rewarding them and I build relationship built off of giving them agency to choose and showing I am willing to cooperate.

Many dogs have never been shown what it’s like to have cooperation with a human.

I encourage you to slow down.
Don’t fidget, talk and pet.

Just exist.

Reward the good.

Do you do this with your dog?

👀🤔 when was the last time you sat outside far enough away from dogs and people and just….existed with your best friend?

11/11/2025

Reactive dogs often have very low levels in the ability to handle stress and frustration.

The leash is frustrating.

Being inside a house is frustrating.

Confined behind a fence is frustrating.

Not being able to chase, dig, shred, run, bark and on and on is frustrating for dogs.

All that frustration builds up stress when a dog does not have a pressure relief valve to exhaust that pent up frustration and stress.

Teach reactive dogs how to increase their ability to handle frustration and mitigate stress is vital to success with reactive dogs.

The 2nd and 4th (in my opinion) are the most impactful to dog owner success at home.Which is your favorite?Do you have a...
06/11/2025

The 2nd and 4th (in my opinion) are the most impactful to dog owner success at home.

Which is your favorite?

Do you have any questions about any of them?🙌🏽

Don’t forget to save and share these for reference!✅

04/11/2025

Babes, imma hold your hand as I say this…

….if your dog doesn’t have any desire to engage or participate with you because you don’t have a bridge for connection (food or toys or personal play) - you NEED to build that up first.

I mean yeah of course you can just punish your dog to get them to stop doing something, but is that really the type of life you want to live with them?

Which btw I’m all for using punishment when you’ve taught, managed, conditioned and proofed first and even then we need to have a conversation.

{{yessssss for the pedantic people that are taking offense with an 8 second video - intelligent people with critical thinking will know there is more nuance to this conversation. Intelligent people do not need nuance pointed out because it is inherently implied}}

♥️🫶🏼 For those of you new to dog training and genuinely curious, you can use toys/play or the environment via Premack if you don’t want to use food or your dog doesn’t like food.

What is most confusing to you about building up food drive with your dog?

30/10/2025

Ever loved your dog SO MUCH that you forgot where you end and they began?

Having a deep relationship is a beautiful thing…when it’s healthy.

But when your world shrinks down to just your dog or your dogs world and their emotional stability requires your presence and attention 24/7, we don’t build the independence both parties need to thrive.

Practicing the different things mentioned can help avoid turning each other into emotional anchors that can be a contributing factor into dog anxiety, reactivity and more.

Obviously there’s a lot of contributing factors to behavioral issues like anxiety and reactivity.

However, across the board, the the majority (not all) of anxiety and reactivity cases dog trainers get - a contributing factor is the emotional enmeshment that is occurring.

✍🏽If you have a reactive or anxious dog, which of the 5 solutions I provided do you know you need to work on the most?🤔

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