My Dog Ate A Sock And Peed On The Van Bed, Yet We’re Still Good Trainers

My Dog Ate A Sock And Peed On The Van Bed, Yet We’re Still Good Trainers

February 6, 2026 · 1h 6m

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The episode discusses adapting dog training methods to suit individual dogs and their owners, emphasizing the importance of skills over trends.

Some dogs power through thresholds like a freight train. Others melt into perfect heel the second they get nervous. We spent the week working both ends of that spectrum and came home with a message worth underlining: great training adapts to the dog and the human, not the latest trend. We break down the big “training camps”—balanced, force-free, compulsion—and then move past labels to the skills that matter: clean markers, tight criteria, smart reinforcement, and fair corrections. You’ll hea...

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