Ty The Dog Guy On The Daily

Today I want to talk about a topic that’s a little personal: choosing to do more than you need to do when you’re training your dog. My first dog’s name was Heidi, and it took me years of begging to get her. My parents weren’t into them, my mom was afraid of them, and nobody else wanted to deal with the mess. But I begged until I was fourteen years old and we moved to a house that had an acre of property, and then along came Heidi! Around the same time that Heidi came to live with us, I was able to start my apprenticeship with a local dog trainer in Northern California. So I got into dog training very quickly as a kid. I was addicted to how cool it was to work as a team, to get my dog to listen to me, and to have such a strong bond with an animal. I thought it was amazing. I was so gung-ho when first learning to train that I did a lot of crazy things. As an example, I often worked on a sit stay on a picnic table at a park. There’s absolutely no reason for a dog to jump up on a picnic table, but I did it