Dogs And Calmness

I do not preach that one of your main training goals is to make dogs calm.

I think it is counterproductive to keep trying to make dogs calm and often backfires. It is, for lack of a better description, unnatural to keep trying to suppress excitement in a dog.

All the “calmness” strategies I see are mainly a way for inexperienced dog trainers to shut down dogs because they don’t have good solutions for behavioral and training issues. The focus on calmness is a tell that reveals the inadequacy of the trainer. Even worse, are trainers who force dogs to stay for long periods on a dog bed or cot, sometimes for hours... (MORE)