Summary: If I had to recommend one thing and one thing only to you about working with dogs, it would be to harness the power of calm energy. This takes place in two places: 1- with you, and 2- encouraging and facilitating calm in the dogs you're around. It's a pretty simple concept but one that so many dog owners and dog professionals overlook. First off, all your communication with dogs will suffer if you cannot stay calm - even in chaos. And second, dogs make bad decisions in anything but a calm state of mind, so it's important to make sure that we make calm a very rewarding thing. In this episode you'll learn: How to be a trigger for calm behavior in dogs The ways we can make calm a rewarding stat of mind for our dogs How to structured walks and play can alter state of mind Why my dog no long needs to know any obedience commands
