E388- The Biggest Reason Your Dog Becomes Unhappy

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Tom Davis· Host0:14

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the No Bad Dogs podcast and my second YouTube channel. Today, we're gonna be talking about something everybody does. The reason why you clicked on this. It's like, "Oh, I wonder what Tom's talking..." Yeah, well, today is exactly that, is you guys are making this mistake. All my clients make mistakes. I have been actively educating myself and practitioning this s- these studies for over a decade. Dog comes in with behavioral issues, whether it's anxiety, reactivity, aggression, et cetera. There's, like, five things that we can draw a straight line through as dog trainers or behaviorists or whatever you wanna call us, that we can say these are the things. Like, if you were a doctor on the liver and you said, "Hey, every single time somebody has a bad liver, they do these five things. All of them do these five things," you would wanna know, "How do I avoid these five things?" Or if you're a mechanic and you said, "Hey, every single time somebody goes to this gas station and puts this gas in, um, the car dies." It's like, okay, where is that... I, I wanna avoid that. Same thing with dogs, guys. It's, um, it... What we're gonna be talking about is kinda like that, um, fancy term is anthropomorphism, and essentially it's humanizing dogs. And again, to be clear, I love dogs. I get on the ground with dogs. I kiss dogs. They sleep in my bed. I have been covered in