Ep286 - Lessons from a lifetime of working dogs: Roger Mayer APM

And, and what else, what else did you feel that you lacked in regards to like, you know, being naturally, you know.

Boys, my, my, my timing, timing wasn't great.

But I was, I know I had a bad temper, which, you know, and Kencho was a soft dog, he's a fairly soft dog, and I was fairly hard.

I was always hard on my dogs, and I'm just thinking about last night, and I go, I've got to apologize to so many dogs for the things I've done, because that's the way I was brought up.

Yeah, that can be tough, you know, like I was thinking just, you know, on that same note, like it's hard when it comes to like raising a child.

Now, the way I was raised, not that I was like beaten or anything, but, you know, it was tough.

And then now it's like, don't be this, that or whatever.

And like, and you second guess yourself as like, am I doing like, you know, yeah, I got mad and I banged the table and you'd be quiet when I say you'd be quiet.

And it's like, and then now you're like, is that too much? Like that, if my dad wouldn't second guess, that's too much.

That's like nothing.

What are you talking about? You know? And, and I guess you would feel the same way.

Like I feel the same way.

Just how, like the things I try to make a puppy do when I was 21 starting out, you know, I was like, oh my God.

Yeah.

I should apologize to that puppy.

Um, making him walk a loose leash at four months old.

That's ludicrous.

It's craziness thinking about what I, what I would expect then.

So, um, I can only imagine, you know, over your career, you know, um, you know, so.

I

learned, I learned at my first, each dog teaches you more than you teach the dog.

My first dog taught me so much, Gancho, I worked him.

He taught me so much.

And then by the third, about the third dog you train, you've got an idea.

And I'm not saying it's not, you know, but.