The first thing I check on any dog has nothing to do with their behaviour.

Every dog barks. Every dog pulls sometimes. Every young dog blanks a recall now and then. What tells you something is wrong is the intensity. The dog that barks at everything all day, or the pulling that never lets up. The intensity like that is coming from under the water. 2 dogs pull on a lead side by side, identical behavior. One's pulling because he's wound up and he can barely think. The other is pulling because he's scared And wants to get out of there. Same tip of the iceberg, but 2 completely different dogs under the water. Now you teach them both to heel. You might even manage to pull it off, but you haven't touched what's driving either of them. So it comes back. You push one head down, another one pops up. So here's the only thing I want you to do this week. When your dog does a thing, whatever your thing is, catch yourself before you ask, how do I stop it? and ask a different question. What's underneath it? You won't have the answer yet. That's fine. That's what the rest of this 60 days is for. But I'm going to take you under the waterline one piece at a time. Tomorrow, I want to talk about you, not the dog.