{"id":2734,"date":"2016-09-08T20:51:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testmaria.satemporary.online\/2016\/09\/08\/2016-09-08-the-hardest-thing\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T23:40:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T23:40:28","slug":"the-hardest-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testmaria.satemporary.online\/2016\/09\/08\/the-hardest-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hardest Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Hardest Thing<\/h1>\n

By Sean O’Shea<\/h1>\n

What\u2019s the hardest thing for both owners and trainers? It\u2019s the power of association, emotional habits, perceptions, and feelings. All the stuff owners have accidentally or inadvertently created between their dogs, themselves, and their environments.<\/p>\n

Watching well-trained, calm, and obedient dogs literally become different animals \u2013 reactive, aggressive, crazed, freaked out, incapable of listening etc \u2013 right before your eyes as the owner enters the room, grabs the leash, or returns the dog home is something that never ceases to amaze and confound.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the one thing we can\u2019t control. Even with owners doing their homework, having the tools and commands down pat, and showing up ready to change it all, it\u2019s still the wildcard in play. For many dogs it\u2019s a seamless transition \u2013 they jump right into the new game. For others, it\u2019s a totally different story. These dogs are so affected by the relationship\/associations\/feelings they have with their owners that their minds and nervous systems simply meltdown.<\/p>\n

They are so aroused, excited, overwhelmed, over-stimulated, and most of all, reconnected to their past feelings (dependency, guarding, fear, anxiety, excitement, possessiveness etc) that they\u2019re completely different dogs. They don\u2019t respond to commands. They don\u2019t care about the tools. They react when they didn\u2019t react. They explode when they previously didn\u2019t care. The just-minutes-ago calm, and well mannered dog, disappears in an instant! They actually engage in physical ticks and behaviors (rolling on the ground, scratching, licking, spinning, whining etc) to try to channel out some of this toxic remembrance and association.<\/p>\n

This is the power of relationship and association. Dogs not only get into behavioral patterns, they also get into emotional, and physiological (secretions of stress hormones) patterns. They actually feel emotionally different, and physically different around their owners and environments. To be successful with these guys, it\u2019s not just about training new behaviors and habits, no, we\u2019re talking about needing to actually reprogram the emotions and the body of these dogs.<\/p>\n

To be successful, these dogs need to actually FEEL different in their owner\u2019s presence and in their home environments. And this is the Mt Everest that these owners have to climb, if they want their dogs to be safe, polite, relaxed, and well-behaved. These owners have work ahead of them that many aren\u2019t going to be down for, simply because it\u2019s too hard, too exhausting, and takes too much perseverance. It\u2019s not your usual dog training hand over, it\u2019s something totally different. It\u2019s human and dog reboot time. World Series version.<\/p>\n

This was me with my two dogs, Oakley and Junior. It took me fighting and wanting it so bad, for over a year and a half to get them to finally reset. We had SO many negative, toxic associations and feelings, that the only fix was tons of time and tons of effort. Daily battle, of me wanting this and being unwilling to give it up unrealized. It was messy, and it was far from pretty, but we got there. Finally.<\/p>\n

For other owners who find themselves in this position, I can tell you that what you want is definitely possible, but I can also assure that it can be an incredibly hard, and long road. And only those who want it bad enough to go out day after day and earn back a new relationship, create new associations, and develop new feelings will get it. It will be hard, it will be uncomfortable, it will often feel hopeless, and it might even be embarrassing, but that\u2019s the required exchange if you find you and your dog in this predicament, and you want to find your way back out.<\/p>\n

P.S. Yes this is about training, tools, commands, rules, structure, and accountability, but even more so it\u2019s about the inner resolve to become the person you need to be daily, in every moment, to create these lasting changes in your dog\u2019s perception of you.<\/p>\n

Sean O’Shea
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