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For the owner who's not sure if their dog needs training A well-trained, well-mannered dog has a bigger life. What's more fun than including your Best Good Friend in all that you can? Everybody thinks their dog is the best good dog. And while nobody is wrong about that... sometimes our definition of a good dog leaves room for better. Your dog doesn't have severe behavioral issues! They aren't a bite-case, they're not destroying your house, and honestly, life is mostly fine. B

Hint: it's not sit and shake You just brought home an 8 week old puppy. Firstly, congrats! Secondly... you have a baby in your house now. A literal, brand new, completely overwhelmed infant who is processing an entirely new world at an impossible rate. And the first thing most owners want to know is: when do we start training? Here's the truth: you've already started. It just might not look like the uber-formal dog training you think it should look like with your puppy. Puppi

The cliffnotes to puppy development so you can stop panicking and start parenting You're a parent to your puppy before you get to be their friends. And that's how it should be. Nobody tells you this before you bring a puppy home: you are not just getting a dog. You are raising one. And close to like raising a kid, what you need from them (and what they need from you) changes completely depending on where they are in the journey. Here's how I like to break it down with every c

If you have ever felt like your dog "knew" something in training and then completely forgot it the moment you got home — you are not alone. And it is probably not your dog's fault. Here is the thing nobody says out loud enough: in most training programs, the dog is the student. The owner is the audience. And then everyone is surprised when the training doesn't follow the dog home. That is the missing piece. It has always been the owner. What Owner-Focused Means Owner-focused