Ep282 - Why your dog runs the house

But the topic that I wanna talk about today, why your dog runs the house.

It's just been one of the themes.

It's just been the vibe of the last month or so that I've just been seeing more recently, and maybe I have my theories for this, but why so many dogs, in particular little dogs, are just running the show and causing mayhem inside the house, and it is escalating to aggressive behavior.

And it's concerning because a lot of these households have children.

But also more concerning is why it's occurring in the first place because, you know, some of these clients are clients that I've had from when people had these dogs as puppies, and I just don't think people realize when we're giving advice about house rules, boundaries in the house, having a good management plan and strategy.

And look, and most of my clients have followed through with a good management plan, but things have faded along the way where we've just gone, "Ah, you know, you're a little dog.

You're cool.

You're cute.

You look like a teddy bear.

You got freedom to the house to do whatever you gotta do." Until dog's sleeping on the couch or dog jumps up on the couch and we go to move them away or just to shove them over so we can sit down and they start sh- displaying aggressive behavior, starting to bite, growl, nip, lunge.

And the reason why it's escalating to the point where they're, now they're calling me to come out is people see the bark, lunge, and growl, the beginning of aggressive behavior becoming very overt, and they're like, "Oh, look, this just started happening in the last week or two." And I say, "No, no, no.

This has been happening so far back," but it's just hard to see with untrained eyes and with lack of experience where certain little behaviors manifest and grow into.

It doesn't happen all the time, and some people are lucky.

They've just got their little dog, little cavoodle, little whatever, running the show.

Everyone's happy.

Dog's a bit cheeky.

Everyone loves it.

We all live happily ever after.

And that happens so often that it's not an issue.

And obviously I am seeing more-- I mainly see problem behaviors, so it's easy for me to say that I see it all the time, but it's not an all the time thing.

But cavoodles in particular the last month have been acting out and, and I don't think it's because of the cavoodles.

It could be because of their dodgy breeding.

Maybe, maybe not.

If I can think about it, some of these cavoodles actually have come from a, from a, um, a pet shop, which not all the time means that they're coming from really great, awesome breeders.

But anyway, out of my wheelhouse, so I can't give too much to that.