Category: Training Philosophy
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Why your dog won’t listen (and what that can mean)
In July, Walnut decided that 9am on a Tuesday was the perfect time to go to Chestnut Fields. Not the route we’d planned. Not the walk that would get us home on time. Just Chestnut Fields, where she gets to go off lead and roll around in the grass. She sat down in the middle…
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How we judge dog breeds by who’s holding the lead
A while back I was out with my dog Walnut, and saw a South East Asian man wearing a tracksuit walking towards me with a huge bull breed-type dog. Walnut can be nervous of larger dogs, so I did what I always do: I crossed the road to give us both some space. The man…
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Why I train dogs the way I do (and what it has to do with the patriarchy)
I watched the Louis Theroux documentary on the manosphere recently — the one where a succession of men (and some women) explain, with remarkable confidence, that women are happiest when they step back, make themselves smaller, and let men lead. That their opinions are, at best, a distraction. That compliance is a virtue. It brought…