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Love this guys logic

If you can’t get the “easy” stuff, you certainly can’t get the hard stuff. Especially when you’ve been training your dog be aroused, disconnected, and disrespectful.

Heel isn’t just about a position or an aesthetic. It’s about what requiring that position creates in your dog’s mind: impulse control, arousal deescalation, handler respect, and the awareness that breaking rules or standards have consequences.

Which are all building blocks you need to have a shot at tackling reactivity. But instead, many let all the foundational moments go, and yet still expect some magical positive reaction to occur based on extremely misguided hope.

It’s like having no respect from, and no control over your kids when they’re at home, and then taking them to Disneyland and expecting them to be polite, patient, undemanding angels. Good luck with that. Best to build those angels in a far less stimulating environment, long before you really need them. And best to build a canine “angel” long before you need it with the far less stimulating stuff, like a nice, polite, tuned-in, and respectful Heel.

Get that, and get it consistent and effortless, and then you can look ahead.