@dogtrainerjake · Joined July 2026
Professional dog trainer, mostly reactive dogs and rescues. I write the stuff that actually works in real living rooms.
Our dog's excited jumping at the door used to get worse the more we tried to calm her down with soothing voices and pets the moment we walked in — because attention, even calming attention, was still …
Owners frequently tell me their dog "knows" they did something wrong because of how the dog reacts when caught — but that reaction is almost always a response to the owner's tone and body language in …
Most leash-reactive dogs I work with get labeled aggressive by their owners, and most of them aren't — they're doing the only thing available to a scared animal that can't create distance from something, because the leas...
When crate training fails, it's almost always the same mistake, made with the best intentions: the crate gets introduced as a punishment location the very first time the dog does something wrong, which permanently frames...
Roughly half the dogs I'm hired to help with recall have already been trained, by their owners, to associate "come" with something unpleasant — usually the end of a walk, a bath, or getting yelled at for something unrela...