Angie Barber repositions training, behavior and obedience in this blog post to help dog people understand how to work toward a mentally and emotionally stable well-adjusted dog. Her State of Mind Dog Training website includes some freebies worth considering for clients <Link>. She urges dog owners to take a step back, shift from a transactional/obedience-based mindset into a holistic/behavioral mindset and look at the bigger picture.
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Obedience is just one TINY part of the massive sea of “dog training” and fails to solve most problems that owners face regularly. Obedience isn’t the same as behavior, and focusing on it is exactly why so many owners get stuck, asserts Angie Barber.
Obedience is teaching a dog specific commands that control what their body is doing. It does not a) teach a dog how to navigate day-to-day life, b) change how they feel about the world and c) does NOT build TRUST.
Source: State of Mind Dog Training. Link.
Obedience alone doesn’t create dogs who are secure, regulated, confident, have healthy social skills, and feel good in their world.”
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