Welcome to my blog! I love to share what I know about dogs with other people, so thanks for reading this. I know that you’re going to learn all kinds of really cool things you didn’t know before.

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Welcome to my blog! I love to share what I know about dogs with other people, so thanks for reading this. I know that you’re going to learn all kinds of really cool things you didn’t know before.

Silly Dog

Sometimes I’ll be silly because it’s fun. That’s probably why I’m a good dog trainer. I use dog training as an excuse to be silly and dogs love silliness.

My first labrador’s name was Silly Dog and that she was. She taught me how to be silly as well as how to live with and relate to dogs. We lived together for 15 years and I still miss her dearly.

She was my once in a lifetime dog and usually we only get one of those. But since Silly Dog, I’ve been lucky enough to have another and then another. I haven’t forgoten the many lessons that she taught me, includining, how to communicate with dogs.

Once in a Life Time Dog

Most people only think in terms of training dogs, which is usually a one way process all the emphasis is on getting the dogs to receive information. If you’ve been lucky enough to have a once in a lifetime dog, you know how much time you spent communicating with that dog, which is a two way process.

When you communicate with a dog, it creates a bond that can’t be explained to people who haven’t had the experience. It’s created with 10% chemistry, and 90 % communication. When you love a dog, you communicate in a thousand ways. It’s the communication that builds the human-animal bond and the relationship. In return, it is the relationship that increases the communication process – what a lovely cycle.

Communication in Many Ways

We communicate with dogs through our voices, facial expressions, touch, movements and gestures. In this blog, I have only my words to convey my true meaning. I hope you can ’see’ how much I care about dogs as I write about subjects as varied as the origins of the man–dog bond to the newest techniques and methods of teaching or training dogs. I think it all fits together – our bonds, our communication, and our lives.

The Full Circle Concept

I like to think there is a kind of full circle thing in the works here. In the beginning of human communications, men were communicating with other men (I say men although us girls are pretty sure we started the trend). Then men started communicating with canines.

Now, we’ve progressed all the way from grunting around the campfire to instant Internet communications of the 21st century, but our goal remains the same. Communicate with each other so we can communicate with the dog. Pretty cool.