We always owned big dogs and then we had to move and they past away and we got a small dog since we had to get a smaller house and yard and everyone said small dogs can’t be trained and yadyada. Now, her ass never really got fully potty trained, but she was obedient, listened very well, and could do every trick in the book. I don’t think little dogs are idiots, I think people raise them passively because they are small so you can just pick them up and move them around yourself. With a big dog, lay down, going to where your finger points, sit, stay, come, these are all critical life saving commands much of the time. So we trained our little dog the same way and she learned it all. She never really didn’t piss on the floor for more than a few weeks in a row but… ya know… it’s all ok in the end. Baby girl lived over 17 years.
Your dog can never be off leash until they know “with me” or “here” or “come” or whatever and that doesn’t just mean they come to you, it means they stop whatever they’re doing, no matter how energetic their emotion is, they come to you, and they sit or lay right in front of you.
A dog should be able to go from full on hackles up to laying between your legs with 1 command. If they cannot choose you over the other stimuli, they are not safe to be off leash and they really aren’t a very safe dog anyway.
People think dogs can’t fuck you up, they can. I’ve never been bit, but people are maimed severely by dogs plenty often.
They’re man-bred working little machine like creatures. They’re loving and cuddly but hell, so is your partner and they could kill you any time. They need to work with their brains.
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