Anything is Pawsable Dog Training LLC
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CLOSED- Retired Fear, pain, & force FREE dog trainer specializing in socialization, anxiety, reactivity, & enrichment
08/04/2025
Have you ever worn a pair of pants that dig in at the waist?
Had a sock slide down into your shoe with every step?
Or spent the day fidgeting with an itchy label that wouldn’t sit right?
Not painful.
Just annoying. Distracting. Enough to put you in a bad mood.
Now imagine you couldn’t take it off.
Imagine no one noticed.
And instead of helping you, they told you to behave better. Focus more. Stop overreacting.
Discomfort changes everything.
It affects your tolerance. Your patience. Your ability to cope.
And dogs feel it too—even when they don’t show it in ways we expect.
Dogs are bred to be stoic.
They push through. They keep going.
But just because they can doesn’t mean they should.
They’re not robots.
If something in your dog has changed—if they’re grumpier, less focused, slower to respond, more sensitive—don’t assume it’s a behaviour issue.
Start with kindness.
Start by asking: Could they be in pain? Could they be uncomfortable?
Especially if you already know they’ve got allergies, or arthritis, or another health condition.
Discomfort doesn’t always shout. Sometimes it just whispers.
The good news is: pain and discomfort can often be fixed.
And when we fix that, everything else gets easier.
It’s the little things that make life better—for them and for us.
Let’s start by fixing what we can fix.
Because that’s the kindest way forward.
I'm going to take this moment to show you why it's so important to always make sure you're always working on building your relationship with your dog. I hear all the time about using the vibration part on a shock collar, a spray bottle, etc. "doesn't hurt," so people think it's OK. This is why it's not. Just because it doesn't cause pain,doesn't mean it doesn't damage the trust your fur babies have in you as their guardian. It affects them negatively emotionally. If my dogs didn't completely trust me, this would not have gone the way it did. I don't force my dogs to do anything. I don't pick them up and force them to approach/experience anything. They always have a choice.
Our air isn't working, so we bought a fan. My dogs have been around a fan before, but not in this exact context (that's another discussion for another time). My older guy, Hank, was looking out the window when the fan rotated to him and started blowing on him. That startled him. He started barking at it. The puppy, Peggy, was already worried about the fan; we were just letting the fan be part of the room. Peggy got excited and worried that her big brother was worried about something. He normally doesn't get worried about anything, really. If my dogs didn't trust me, they would have never trusted me to come near such an object when I walked over so they would know it was safe. I was laughing, but when I stopped, I calmly talked to them. It wasn't what I said; it was my calm voice.
07/03/2025
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01/14/2025
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