Jacob MorganYorkshire Canine Academy Brain

☝️ Click to watch FULL VIDEO - Your Dog Isn't Anxious. They’re Just Fragile. (The Truth)

10 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Jacob Morgan argues dogs aren't anxious but fragile, lacking robustness. He says owners need to create controlled stress and enforce recovery through pressure and rest, not just treat-and-expose methods. Clicker training is supplemental icing, not the foundational flour for building resilience.

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Stop thinking about your dog's anxiety and start thinking about your dog's fragility, because it's a fragility issue, not an anxiety issue. We have to create stress, which we can't do without obligation and force, and then we have to enforce recovery from that stress, which we often can't do without pressure. So knowing that, how ridiculous does it sound to take your dog that's scared of the rattling radiator, put it in front of another dog, and try to make it feel better by giving it a biscuit? It's not a addressing the underlying issue. The underlying issue is a lack of robustness, and you do not build robustness with a clicker. You build it with pressure, and you just solidify it with rest. Now, to caveat, I use clickers, I use counterconditioning protocols, but it's more the icing on the cake as opposed to the flour that makes up the cake. So stop thinking about your dog's anxiety and start thinking about your dog's fragility, because it's a fragility issue, not an anxiety issue. Fix the foundation first.