{"id":2774,"date":"2017-03-11T19:12:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T19:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testmaria.satemporary.online\/2017\/03\/11\/2017-03-11-is-your-dog-too-smart-for-training\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T23:25:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T23:25:34","slug":"is-your-dog-too-smart-for-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testmaria.satemporary.online\/2017\/03\/11\/is-your-dog-too-smart-for-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Dog Too Smart For Training?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is Your Dog Too Smart For Training?<\/h1>\n

By Sean O’Shea<\/h1>\n

Relationships are real things. You and your dog have one. It might be healthy, balanced, and awesome, or it might be toxic, disrespectful, and disheartening. Or maybe it\u2019s somewhere in-between. Whatever it is, it\u2019s been built by your interactions. What you\u2019ve allowed. What you haven\u2019t allowed. What you\u2019ve asked for. What you\u2019ve reinforced. Who you\u2019ve been and how you\u2019ve behaved.<\/p>\n

Everything you\u2019ve done has been information your dog has used to determine your relationship. All this information has told your dog who you are and what role you wish to play in his life. It\u2019s also informed him about the rules of life. What is and isn\u2019t okay, what is and isn\u2019t expected. It\u2019s created the framework your dog makes all his decisions from.<\/p>\n

While trainers can teach your dog commands, manners, and what is and isn\u2019t acceptable behavior, your dog is simply too smart and too emotionally evolved to take that information as universal. Just like you know who means business and who doesn\u2019t in your own life, so does your dog. Eventually, if you don\u2019t keep up the work, if you start to slack, your dog will see the cracks. He\u2019ll realize there\u2019s two sets of rules: the ones he knows, and the ones you actually enforce. And he\u2019ll choose the latter. Not because he\u2019s a bad dog, but because he\u2019s opportunistic\u2026just like you and me.<\/p>\n

Like us, when authority and rules are foggy, or not consistently enforced, we tend to take advantage of them. Whether we like to admit it or not, it\u2019s always consequences \u2013 or the possibility of them \u2013 that tends to keep us on our best behavior. The more predictable and dependable, the better our behavior tends to be. And of course, the less predictable and dependable, the worse our behavior tends to be.<\/p>\n

Our dogs are reading us. All the time. What are we enforcing, what are we allowing? They\u2019re taking this information and deciding what needs to be adhered to and what doesn\u2019t, who needs to be listened to and who doesn\u2019t. If you ask for less than what the trainer asked, you\u2019ll get less. If you ask the same, you\u2019ll get the same. It\u2019s in these moments that you create your relationship dynamics.<\/p>\n

And while us trainers can build the foundation for the new, more healthy patterns and choices to stand on, it\u2019s only you \u2013 the person your dog lives with, the person who enforces the rules, structure, and expectations daily \u2013 that can make these changes permanent.<\/p>\n

We can only give you the tools to start you on the path, we can\u2019t build the relationship. That part, the hard part, is up to you. Your dog is too smart to have it any other way.<\/p>\n

Sean O’Shea
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Is Your Dog Too Smart For Training? By Sean O’Shea Relationships are real things. You and your dog have one. It might be healthy, balanced, and awesome, or it might be toxic, disrespectful, and disheartening. Or maybe it\u2019s somewhere in-between. Whatever it is, it\u2019s been built by your interactions. What you\u2019ve allowed. 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