Stop Labeling Your Dog

For humans, once we label a behavior, especially an undesirable behavior, it’s hard for us to allow the dog to grow past that label. The dog and owner then continue to grow into that labeled identity in a perpetual Catch-22 cycle. Approaching behaviors in a more open-ended way allows there to be energetic space for both the dog and handler to change as the human’s mentality isn’t so focused on the societal label given and all that comes with it, but focused on the change they are working on with their dog.

We as humans tend to approach our introduction and training differently when we think in movement adjectives rather than static adjectives, so a dog scared (static) of water can actually be a dog unknowing (movement) about water.