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7 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT DOGS
1) Puppies learn best through play—it helps increase their neurological development, and improves
social skills and helps them develop impulse control! (See The Importance of Play.)
2) If you only train your dog while he’s in a calm mood he won’t know how to obey you when he’s
excited (like when he sees a squirrel or a skateboarder)! (See The Importance of Play.)
3) Puppy obedience classes can cause learning deficits and, in some cases, long-term social and
emotional problems in adult dogs! (See The Importance of Play.)
4) Your dog has strong instinctive needs and drives that will always find a way to override either
dominance (fear-based) or positive (treat-based) training. So methods that actually use your
dog’s drives in training work far better! (See It's In HIs Heart.)
5) Most obedience behaviors—like heel, stay, down, etc.—are anologues of the predatory motor
patterns found in wild wolves! (See It's In His Heart.)
6) There are no pack leaders in wild wolf packs—real pack operates as a cooperative hunting unit.
They love working together! (See Is Your Dog Dominant?)
7) The desire to obey is hard-wired into your dog as part of her hunting instincts. The key to
unlocking that desire is found in play! (See It's In His Heart.)
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