Why Dog Training Unplugged?
For decades, we humans have been intent on training our dogs to achieve better behavior. We have been used to 'blaming' and labelling' our dogs, distinguishing between a "Good Dog" and a "Bad Dog".
Turns out there are NO BAD DOGS and the dog training models we have been using are largely outdated. The story we have been told about dogs so far has failed to understand WHY they do what they do and WHO they really are. We have seen an explosion in dog behavior issues like aggression, reactivity, fear, anxiety and training is not fixing these issues..... because our dogs' problems are not training problems but WELFARE problems.
In this podcast, Vivi Myslik Jorgensen LFDM_T, KPA CTP calls upon us humans to UNPLUG our preconceived ideas of dogs and training in order to start at what she calls POINT CERO = UNDERSTANDING:
To be able to fully help our dogs who are lost, we need to first UNPLUG in order to understand and HEAR their voices - perhaps for the first time.
We also need to become aware of WHAT we actually miss out on by focusing on training our dogs and misunderstanding what their needs are, not to mention and how much harm is actually being done in the name of training.
Thus, Vivi helps her listeners understand how the majority of dog behavior problems are closely related to human behavior and how, by changing OUR behavior FIRST, we are able to finally become WHO our dogs need us to be - which ultimately puts us in a better position to prevent, minimize, or resolve dog behavior issues.