Ty The Dog Guy On The Daily

In this post, I want to talk about mathematics—specifically, addition and subtraction. I like to give formulas to my clients and break them down into easily-digestible, bite-sized chunks. When it comes down to it, everything we want from out dogs fall into addition and subtract: there are things we want to add to our dogs, and things we want to subtract. Addition is usually a proactive thing. We want our dogs to come when called, heel when told, and sit nicely to get dinner. Sometimes subtraction almost seems like the opposite: we want to subtract leash pulling, jumping, peeing in the house. We treat addition and subtraction in different ways, we communicate those concepts in different ways Subtraction is oftentimes the easier of the two to fix. When you want to subtract aggression that’s not as true, but “subtracting” something like jumping or chewing or digging is usually easier to fix. I normally look at two things. First, is the dog being fulfilled properly? Does it have what it needs? It’s frustratin