Ep. 216: Why Do All Your Dogs Struggle With The Same Thing?

Good morning.

And today we are asking that question.

Is it you or the dogs?

Now, this is pretty much to talk about like when you have had multiple dogs in your life and you find that you are dealing with a lot of the same behavioral challenges with every single dog.

And it just seems like every dog that you have has a very similar issue.

How do you know if it's you that is the problem?

Laura picked this one, I'm just going to say.

She picked that topic.

Or is it the dogs that is the problem? Because we do see it a lot where we have multiple clients that will say that they had past dogs that...

had whether it's like resource guarding that's probably one of the ones we see a lot of it's the biggest one you know every one of my dogs has resource guarding or every one of my dogs has protective every one of my dogs that i've ever had has uh reactivity on a walk on the leash you know why would it be that it's a totally different dog why

And so a couple of different reasons here.

One, I'm going to say we're going to start off the podcast by saying sometimes you subconsciously pick the same personality.

Same personality.

It's very true.

I'm going to say that's how I'm starting this off because I subconsciously pick the same personality in every dog.

Yeah.

I mean, and it's just, you know, you meet the dog, they're cute, but then it's also like, what are you looking for in that personality? A lot of people are, they gravitate to a specific personality of dogs.

Yes.

Whether that's the dog that's super playful or the dog that, you know, only pays attention to you and doesn't pay attention to everybody else.

Right.

Or the one that's hiding a lot, that seems nervous.

You know, you feel bad for them.

And

you subconsciously, you're not going in there with a plan to say, I want the dog that's going to give me problems later.

Yeah.