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The Dog Training Unplugged Podcast#12: The Umbrella Framework & The COMPASS - why you need it to improve your dog’s life quality- and yours!Did you know that too many dog training sessions are conducted without the trainer understanding what is really going on from the dog’s perspective? Because so many trainers don’t have an educational background in dog behavior, they resort to dominance and control and they communicate to you, the client, that you need to control and dominate your dog. Their reasoning behind these methods originate from the dominance theory about wolves, pack theory, and that you have to show your dog you are the Alpha - and from the behavioral psychology models that have dominated dog training for deca...2024-02-2735 minThe Dog Training Unplugged Podcast#11: How to connect with your dog emotionallyThis is THE no.1 podcast where your dog’s voice is heard. The first of its kind. This podcast is where the TRUTH is told about dogs. You may not like what I talk about. You may not agree with the things I say. And that’s perfectly fine. Whether you agree or not, I would love to get a conversation going. It’s time for change. Change is always uncomfortable. But our dogs need us to change…..that’s why I’m doing this.
I reached out on social media encouraging people to connect with me and let me k...2024-01-2630 minThe Dog Training Unplugged Podcast#10: It's a new dawn. It's time for change: Be a Voice, not an Echo!It’s a new dawn. It’s time. For change. And if you have listened before, you will notice the new music and the name change.
This podcast is changing name because I have an even more important mission to fulfill.
It’s time to stand up for those who cannot speak for themselves, our best friends, our loyal companions, our dogs, who have our backs - but do we have theirs?
I will argue that in too many cases we don’t but we can learn how to have their backs and that is m...2024-01-1518 minThe Dog Training Unplugged PodcastLet's DO better series: Your Soul Dog Is A Jumping Bundle Of Excitement & Joy. How do you stop this behavior?This episode is the second in the Let’s DO better series.
Today we're going to talk about a very common behavior in dogs that we humans often find to be a nuisance. I am of course talking about jumping. It is a behavior almost every household experiences in one way or another.
Whether you have a dog or not I’m sure you have experienced this at one point or another: You walked into a room and a dog enthusiastically jumped on you, wagging its tail and licking your face? While this can be a si...2023-12-1327 minThe Dog Training Unplugged PodcastEpisode 8: Let’s DO Better series: Is the world even ready for change? Are YOU willing to change your behavior for your dog?This episode was supposed to be about something else entirely, about jumping, but I have pushed that out for the next episode.
Something happened yesterday which triggered a lot of emotions in me and brought about the thought of whether or not humans are ready for change when it comes to dogs.
Most people want a dog whom they can take with them everywhere they go, who is well behaved, who will sit and lay down for as long as you want her to, who will not bark, growl, jump, etc. who loves people, kids, a...2023-12-0611 minThe Dog Training Unplugged PodcastLet’s DO better series: The current state of the modern pet home: Disconnect, Miscommunication, and Misunderstandings between dogs and their humansThis episode is the first of many in a series called ‘Let’s DO better’.
It is a known fact that you cannot do better until you know better, until you understand HOW to approach something and until you understand what effect your actions will have on another being.
Humans can talk to us and tell us how our actions or words have made them feel.
Dogs can’t but they DO talk……in their body language and behavior! We just haven’t paid them enough attention so far.
That’s one of the thing...2023-11-3025 minThe Dog Training Unplugged PodcastYour dog can be your greatest teacher in life if your soul is open to what he has to sayIn this episode I talk about my first dog, my soul dog, Rufus, a Miniature Schnauzer whom I lost in 2017 at the age of 11.
Rufus was my greatest, or should I say first, animal teacher in life and the reason I later became a Professional Certified Dog Trainer and Family Dog Mediator®.
I want to share this story with you because it’s a great example of how your dog can be your greatest teacher if you are willing to open your heart & soul and hear what he has to say.
Rufus and I sh...2023-11-0924 minThe Dog Training Unplugged PodcastHow we humans have been misled in our understanding of our dog’s behavior issues.In this episode, I talk about the trend that is becoming more and more concerning regarding our dogs - that most people seem to think that training will resolve the behavior issues they are dealing with.
What is needed instead is us humans stepping up now to HELP our dogs and start thinking differently about their needs and understand that in most cases we need to change OUR behavior rather than theirs.
What we are seeing in the pet dog population is not training problems but WELFARE problems - because of misunderstandings between us and them...2023-11-0222 min
The Dog Training Unplugged PodcastHow we humans have been misled in our understanding of our dog’s behavior issues.In this episode I talk about the trend that is becoming more and more concerning regarding our dogs - how we really need to step up now to HELP our dogs and start thinking differently about their needs and whether or not we should change OUR behavior rather than theirs.
I talk about how the pet dog conversation for decades has been dominated by the idea that a well trained dog is a good dog and how we like to distinguish between a good dog and a bad dog.
In other words, we humans have b...2023-10-3123 minThe Dog Training Unplugged PodcastSoul Connection: How everything in the Universe is connected and WHY you should not take things personally.In this episode I dive into my personal journey and talk about what I have discovered - that we are all the same at the core and why we should not take things personally.
You are the creator of your own life. Your inner thoughts create your outer world.
Whatever you think and FEEL, you will attract a vibrational match for. Not immediately but with repetition.
If you tend to think and feel the universe is against you, then that is what you get.
Your...2023-10-1923 minThe Dog Training Unplugged PodcastTake back your control of your EGO by becoming the observer of your own thoughts.Have you ever objectively listened to the conversation going on in your head?
Our thoughts become words, then actions, habits, and ultimately our identity. Our thoughts create our reality.
What you think you become. What you FEEL you attract, and what you imagine, you create. Those words are so true.
Your EGO controls your thoughts and actions but by stepping outside your thoughts, paying attention to the conversation between the Judge and the Victim inside, you can take back the control from your EGO.
Our beliefs, passed on to us from ou...2023-09-2815 minThe Dog Training Unplugged PodcastMeet your EGO.... that TALL guy or gal who has you fooled.Meet your EGO, that big TALL guy or gal who leads you, controls you wherewhere you go.
The one who has you convinced that THIS is WHO you are!
The one who is always right, who likes to argue, who likes to judge.
The one who persuades you to do things or convinces you that you need things.....the one who is constantly talking to you in your head, perhaps in different voices, conflicting voices.
The one who condemns, the one who thinks you are either better than others, or perhaps...2023-09-2614 minThe Dog Training Unplugged PodcastIntroJoin me on a spiritual journey as I explore many different avenues that all lead back to the same questions of WHY we are here, WHY we do what we do, how we can heal ourselves and our dogs and develop deeper soulful connections - with our own SELF, our dogs, and other people.
There is a paradigm shift happening in the world at large, and in the dog training industry as well.
This is an enormous opportunity for us to ask ourselves what kind of relationship we want with one another, and with our...2023-09-2208 min