Ty The Dog Guy On The Daily

In this post, I’d like to introduce you to a technique I’ve been doing with certain dogs who have anxiety problems. Anxiety issues are huge for many dogs. Sometimes they’re big and the dog is terrified of everything. Sometimes they’re small and the dog is just a little bit anxious when he’s around people or other dogs. Regardless of which issue you’re dealing with, this is an exercise that I stumbled upon years ago and found to help quite a bit. In practice it’s very simple, so I’d like to share it with you. Let me tell the story of how I uncovered this technique. A year ago I was working with a client. I noticed that every time we told the dog to lie down, it would walk over next to the wall or furniture to do so. That dog wanted to be next to something large before it could lie down. The best option would obviously be to lie down next to its owner’s feet, but if we didn’t allow that then the dog would want to lie down near a coffee table or a couch. I realized that the dog was actually gaining strength f