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Embrace the Mess: Training For the Real World

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In this post, I’m going to tell you about a few of my family’s imperfections. Right now, it’s Saturday morning in our house. I’m about to head off to meet a client and the kids have all gone off with my wife. In our family we keep a clean home. (I don’t tidy that much, but my wife does a great job!) If my wife could see what the house looks like right now, however, I know she’d be upset. There are shoes and clothes on the floor, the kids knocked all the pillows off the couch, and some people left some towels on the stairs. And believe me, it can get worse than it is now! We sometimes get a little sloppy, as I’m sure you do too. Here in the living room, next to this little bit of a mess, is my dog. She’s young—just over a year old—and she’s a very high-energy dog. A lot of trainers would say would say: “If you don’t want the dog to chew the shoes or steal the headphones, then you have to hide them from her so she can’t do anything wrong.” But we’ve taught this dog that she needs to calmly relax indoors, even