Max RandallDog Trainer. Who does more than just train.

30 Topics: The Worst & Best Dog Training Tips {Full Video on YouTube Now}

21 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Three trainers debunk common dog advice: hard plastic chew toys can crack teeth and cause blockages, raw diets matter less than ingredient quality, and making dogs wait and stare at food teaches them to guard it aggressively.

Making your dog sit and stay causes resource guarding. Plastic bones. Oh, plastic bones. We saw these at Crufts. Yeah, don't just give your dog plastic to chew on. They're too hard. They'll grind their teeth down. They're also eating plastic.
Raw food.
I'm gonna get in trouble if I answer this one.
I'm going overrated, and I'll explain first. I think raw food is overrated because raw is only explaining how it's made. So just because it's raw doesn't mean it's good, because if it's just a load of steak, that's raw food, but that's horrific for your dog. So raw is overrated. Really good ingredients is underrated. So go with the ingredients. Don't just get it because it's raw.
Okay. Sit and stay for food before being given permission.
I do this for my dogs. It can be like, for me, I'll do it like, literally I'm talking about waiting until the bowl hits the floor, like, just they're not jumping up at me.
Making your dog sit and stay causes resource guarding. If it's a sit, stay, bowl down, okay, that's fine. Making the dog stare at it for 10 seconds for the sake of a TikTok, it's pointless. You drive up the value of that food, and then of course when you go to touch it, people wonder why the dog bites or growls. So staring at it does nothing but actually increase the chance of an issue.