Two Things To Do To Help On The Daily

Unwanted behaviors can cause us to be frustrated. If we’re constantly frustrated, we start to lose our patience. If we start to lose our patience, it can affect the overall relationship we have with our dogs. If you’re started to become frustrated, consider these two things.

1. Prevent your dog from rehearsing the unwanted behavior. Sometimes we have to get creative to make this happens, (Window film, gates etc.) while other times it’s as simple as keeping the counters bare. If we do this properly we’ll see a huge decrease in unwanted behaviors.

2. Proactively meet your dog’s needs. Mixing in some short walks, games of fetch, training sessions and work-to-eat toys will go a long way. Bored dogs get into “inappropriate things.” Enriched dogs get their needs met which heavily reduces their desire to look for more things to enrich them.

Nobody is perfect. Just do your best and things will go more smoothly.