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A lot of jumping up isn’t your dog being badly behaved…it’s over excited, It’s your dog trying to cope. 🫣 If we think about it from their perspective. A person walks in, leans over them, reaches for their head, gets right into their space. That’s a lot for a dog to manage, especially a young one who hasn’t yet built the confidence to deal with it calmly. I am a fully grown women and I still hate people I don’t know coming into my space and touching me 🤣 Jumping up can be a stress response....

Should you just leave your adult dog and puppy to ‘get on with it’ A client last week had been given this advice and things were not going well. The puppy was learning no boundaries and the adult dog was really hating the puppy! (Side note- If your adult dog is a younger dog and super social it might all go smooth and easy. But puppies are bloody hard work for adult dogs as well as the humans.) Most adult dogs are socially selective and building the bond between new dogs may take time,...

💪 Mistakes are feedback not failure! 💪The Rule of 5 tells you exactly when to push forward and when to step back, it helps us not take failure and mistakes personally. 💪 the Rule of 5 works. Keeps success rate around at 80–90% and protects confidence and motivation. It stops us as the teacher, worrying about failures as we have a plan! 💪 It gives the handler objective feedback instead of guessing and learning happens fastest when mistakes are not too frequent. 💪 repeat an exercise 5...