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You’re mid-run. Everything feels right. You give the cue you’ve given a hundred times before, and then your dog turns the wrong way. Or runs straight past the jump you were sure they’d take. You replay it in your head afterwards and can’t figure out what went wrong.
If this sounds familiar, you are not alone. And more importantly, your dog isn’t being difficult, stu...
If you’ve walked off a course frustrated, wondering why your dog took the wrong obstacle or blew straight past a jump you were sure you’d handled correctly, you’ve probably asked some version of this question. Is my dog being stubborn? Not listening? Doing it on purpose?
Realistically, almost none of that is what’s actually happening. In our experience watching and ...
If your puppy won’t settle and seems to have two speeds, full sprint or flat out asleep, with nothing calm in between, you’re not doing anything wrong. Most puppies genuinely don’t know how to settle yet. Settling is a skill. Just like sit or come. And like most skills, your puppy needs someone to actually teach it to them rather than picking it up by accident.
New ...
Socialization is one of those words that gets thrown around so much in the first weeks of puppy ownership that it starts to feel like a race. Meet as many people as possible. Visit as many places as possible. Say yes to every dog park invite before the window closes. It’s well-meaning advice, but it’s often missing the piece that actually matters most.
Good socializ...