Max Randall argues the dog-training industry treats symptoms, not causes. In this 60-day series, he'll explore why dogs develop problem behaviors in the first place, moving past the standard advice about leadership and treats to address what's actually wrong underneath.
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I think by now we've all heard the reasons why your dog is misbehaving and can't be trained. Because you need to be the leader, or you need to be fluffier, you need more treats, you need more tools, you need a better routine. Just do more training and it will somehow work. Wrong. But I'll tell you the one thing they've all got in common, yeah, is that they are all aimed at the behaviour, at the dog. They're teaching you to react to your dog All the time. And I'll be the first one to probably tell you this because not a lot of people know it. This industry is not regulated. No one regulates the dog training world. So that is why you go to classes, you have sessions, you learn online, and so much of it is filled with just training and managing. But have you ever stopped and asked yourself why? The behaviour is the surface that everyone can see. But have you ever wondered what's underneath the surface? Why it actually is just continuously happening? Why no matter how much you're adding, the behaviour still creeps back in some type of way? To answer that, over the next 60 days I'm going to help you get under the surface. And if that sounds like something you'd enjoy or find useful, definitely follow along. But the one thing I want to leave you with right now is this. If the person you're getting advice from is regularly training, to keep the dog behaving, that's the life you're signing up for. If a dog is genuinely okay, healthy, has no underlying issues, you do not need to keep training to keep them behaving. So if you don't want that life, I'll see you tomorrow.
