Before I started my education with Tony, I went to the dog park every day, as I thought Tov had to get a lot of exercise. I even walked him 5 times a day, to try to make him calm down. Nothing worked. The only thing that happened was that Tov was in great shape, but not at all calm anyway, in fact he had a lot more energy to use on playing up.
In the park he had very good recall, but the only problem he had was that he did not stop in time. He ran into my legs or jumped up and put his paws in my chest. I had blue legs and I even got an inflammation in the cartilage between my breast bone and my ribs as a result of him hitting me so hard when he came to me, after I had asked him.
All this behaviour stopped when I had learned Dog Listening well enough to get my message across to him. I had started to really learn the language of dogs, and I noticed more and more how Tov understood me more and more, the more I concentrated on doing the right thing by him.
Dog Listening never stops to amaze me, how well it works.
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