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Lately Iโ€™ve made some posts about pinch collars - and Iโ€™ve sure had some detractors as a result.
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No pinch collar in the world can compel a dog to enjoy its workโ€ฆbut then again, thatโ€™s not why theyโ€™re used.
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Most of the time when a dog has issues with its performance the problem stems back to an inability to motivate that dog.
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Itโ€™s not always that simple, but Iโ€™d make a hell of a lot of money if I bet that it was (often enough).
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Hence, this meme.
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๐Ÿ‘• ๐šƒ๐š‘๐šŽ๐šœ๐šŽ ๐š‘๐šŠ๐šŸ๐šŽ ๐š‹๐šŽ๐šŽ๐š— ๐š๐šŠ๐š› ๐š๐š˜๐š˜ ๐š•๐š˜๐š—๐š ๐š’๐š— ๐š๐š‘๐šŽ ๐š–๐šŠ๐š”๐š’๐š—๐š, ๐š‹๐šž๐š ๐šŠ๐š–๐š˜๐š—๐š๐šœ๐š ๐š๐š‘๐šŽ ๐š–๐šŽ๐š›๐šŒ๐š‘ ๐š ๐šŽ ๐šŠ๐š›๐šŽ ๐š™๐š›๐šŽ๐š™๐šŠ๐š›๐š’๐š—๐š ๐š๐š˜ ๐š›๐šŽ๐š•๐šŽ๐šŠ๐šœ๐šŽ ๐š’๐šœ ๐š๐š‘๐šŽ ๐™ณ๐š˜๐šž๐š‹๐š•๐šŽ ๐™ฝ๐šŠ๐šŸ๐šข ๐™ณ๐šŠ๐šŸ๐šŽ ๐š๐šŽ๐šŽ.
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๐ŸŽ™ ๐š๐šŽ๐š๐šž๐š•๐šŠ๐š› ๐š•๐š’๐šœ๐š๐šŽ๐š—๐šŽ๐š›๐šœ ๐š˜๐š ๐š๐š‘๐šŽ ๐š™๐š˜๐š๐šŒ๐šŠ๐šœ๐š ๐š ๐š’๐š•๐š• ๐š๐šŽ๐š ๐š๐š‘๐šŽ ๐š›๐šŽ๐š๐šŽ๐š›๐šŽ๐š—๐šŒ๐šŽ ๐š›๐š’๐š๐š‘๐š ๐šŠ๐š ๐šŠ๐šข.
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๐Ÿšซ ๐™ธ๐šโ€™๐š•๐š• ๐š˜๐š—๐š•๐šข ๐š‹๐šŽ ๐šŠ๐šŸ๐šŠ๐š’๐š•๐šŠ๐š‹๐š•๐šŽ ๐š’๐š— ๐š‹๐š•๐šž๐šŽ ๐š˜๐š— ๐š‹๐š•๐šž๐šŽ ๐š๐š˜๐š•๐š”๐šœ - ๐šœ๐š˜ ๐š๐š˜๐š—โ€™๐š ๐šŽ๐šŸ๐šŽ๐š— ๐š‹๐š˜๐š๐š‘๐šŽ๐š› ๐šŠ๐šœ๐š”๐š’๐š—๐š ๐š๐š˜๐š› ๐šŠ๐š—๐šข๐š๐š‘๐š’๐š—๐š ๐šŽ๐š•๐šœ๐šŽ, ๐šŠ๐š—๐š ๐šŠ๐šŒ๐šŒ๐šŽ๐š™๐š ๐š—๐š˜ ๐šœ๐šž๐š‹๐šœ๐š๐š’๐š๐šž๐š๐šŽ๐šœ!
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โ„๏ธ ๐š†๐šŽโ€™๐š›๐šŽ ๐šŒ๐š˜๐š—๐šœ๐š’๐š๐šŽ๐š›๐š’๐š—๐š ๐š๐š˜๐š’๐š—๐š ๐šŠ ๐š‘๐š˜๐š˜๐š๐š’๐šŽ ๐š๐š˜๐š˜, ๐š๐š’๐šŸ๐šŽ๐š— ๐š๐š‘๐šŠ๐š ๐š ๐š’๐š—๐š๐šŽ๐š› ๐š’๐šœ ๐šŠ๐š•๐š–๐š˜๐šœ๐š ๐šž๐š™๐š˜๐š— ๐šž๐šœ ๐š‘๐šŽ๐š›๐šŽ ๐š’๐š— ๐™ฐ๐šž๐šœ๐š๐š›๐šŠ๐š•๐š’๐šŠ.
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๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ @david_mckelson ๐š’๐šœ ๐š๐šŠ๐š”๐š’๐š—๐š ๐š๐šŽ๐š•๐š’๐šŸ๐šŽ๐š›๐šข ๐š˜๐š ๐š๐š‘๐šŽ ๐š๐š’๐š›๐šœ๐š ๐šŒ๐š˜๐šž๐š™๐š•๐šŽ ๐šŸ๐šŽ๐š›๐šข ๐šœ๐š˜๐š˜๐š—, ๐šœ๐š˜ ๐šข๐š˜๐šž ๐šŒ๐šŠ๐š— ๐š‹๐šŽ๐š ๐š๐š‘๐š’๐šœ ๐š’๐šœ ๐šŠ๐š‹๐š˜๐šž๐š ๐š๐š˜ ๐š‹๐šŽ๐šŒ๐š˜๐š–๐šŽ ๐š‘๐š’๐šœ ๐š—๐šŽ๐š  ๐š™๐šŽ๐š›๐šœ๐š˜๐š—๐šŠ๐š• ๐šž๐š—๐š’๐š๐š˜๐š›๐š–.
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#doublenavydave
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๐Ÿ—ฃโ€œ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ต ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ต, ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด, ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ณ ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ.โ€
- ๐˜ž. ๐˜Š๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ
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๐Ÿ’ก Also, today is the day for typos that arenโ€™t worth addressing.
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๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐Ÿงšโ€โ™€๏ธ๐—™๐——๐—  ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—œ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—œ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ด/๐˜€.

๐Ÿ“žI call ahead with an ETA and she makes sure that theyโ€™re away from the door and doing something great with her.

๐ŸšชI come in the door and call out to them - and she tells me how they respond.

๐ŸŽ‰Especially with the pup thatโ€™s something I like to know, but we also love blowing their minds with a big dose of instant happy.

๐Ÿ”ฉThe young bloke was playing and BOLTED up onto the couch and into my arms.

๐Ÿ˜Dammit, he was one happy pup!

โค๏ธ We were both overjoyed to see each other, it was a truly lovely moment.

๐Ÿ’ฌ I got a message from the ๐Ÿงšโ€โ™€๏ธFDM this morning, which Iโ€™ve inserted into the bottom right of the pic attached to this text.

๐Ÿ—ฃ ๐˜ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ - ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ต ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ, ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ซ๐˜ฐ๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ.

๐Ÿ’ช Knowing that he just got on with his day when I left actually makes me happier than this greeting on my return ever could - because I know Iโ€™m building this dog towards being a strong individual that can cope with life, and all itโ€™s eventualities.

๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธSome folks want the opposite - but in my opinion that seems somewhat selfish.

โ“Why would I want a dog to feel dependant on me to feel secure, and to be able to function?

๐Ÿ‘Iโ€™m happy to earn my place in his life, and to outcompete other things in our environment.

๐ŸŽ™If youโ€™re trying to achieve these same goals, then be sure to check out @the.stim.podcasts with @dr.michellerassool and myself.

โœ… Our series on Working Backwards To Raise Your Puppy has achieved a ton of praise from listeners - dog owners and trainers alike - and we deep dive on this topic and more.

๐Ÿ’ก ๐—œ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ - ๐˜„๐—ต๐˜† ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐—ฝ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ ๐˜€๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—ฎ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ?

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๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ "๐—ช๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—น๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—บ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ."
- ๐˜ˆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜Œ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ

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