Hello and welcome to my very first blog of my experiences successfully downtraining the most extremely complex and dangerous and skittish dogs without using food nor any training aids. I’m going to touch on a few topics…first, it’s important to explain that as much as my methods seem ‘simple’…it is rooted in six years working alone with dogs, mostly giants weighing over 150 pounds that far exceed ‘bite level 6’ (causing death). I’ll be writing a bit ‘technical’ though most of it will come with examples or human analogies. If you have any questions, feel free to comment below and I’ll try to answer in future blogs.
Earlier this week I received a very awesome email about my work and it’s the reason why I’ve started this blog (I’ll discuss this in a future blog and it’s pretty awesome). Thank you to Virginia, Gerry and Linda. Thank you, Jennifer…I’m honored and delighted at your invitation to compassionately and intuitively influence current perspective with my parenting protocols. To know that dogs with psychological dysfunctions such as aggression or skittishness…can all be downtrained and stabilized with my method. And most often, just by reading my blog and watching my livestream and videos you can learn at home.
My protocols continue to work with every dog, from mild to predatorial. I think for far too long we’ve allowed ourselves to believe that only humans have the most sophisticated consciousness due to the complexity of human ego. How dogs live their days seems to forever be regulated as a species incapable of learning with an emotional basis should a dog become dangerous or skittish beyond current methodologies. I’m successful, and my clients are successful with their dogs because patience and consistency are the two hardest and most special things that will always make the world of difference for your dog.
By bridging our knowledge of human behavior, we can apply dilutive scaled templates of psychology which can reliably destructure animal behavior and how functional psychology operates as a correlating and relative of the overall dilutive scale of ‘being cogent’ (consciousness). More about that later and in future blogs.
As some of you know, my success with extremely predatorial dogs weighing over 150 lbs have garnered me national coverage in a couple major newspapers and television. I downtrained Walter (Tonka) the Great Dane from the Southampton Animal Shelter in New York. Walter’s 38″ tall shoulders carries his 183 pound frame telling the tragic story of a significant history of abuse. Walter’s history includes 16 attacks on people in New York. These are not bites, these are attacks such as dragging a shelter worker into his kennel to try to kill her. He sent several people to the hospital and had bitten a child in the face (the child’s parents took responsibility for their child wandering near Walter while he was eating).
Trying to kill the Southampton animal shelter worker happened when she was giving all the dogs their nighttime peanut butter kong treats. She reached into his stall, forgetting to turn on the lights and gradually announce herself (Walter had a small room due to his massive size). He grabbed her arm and dragged her into his dark room.
Profoundly predacious. Walter had been thru seven homes in his first nineteen months of life. Sadly, six of those homes admitted to severely beating and/or abusing him without realizing they were making Walter more and more distrustful of humans and other dogs. One man was seen on the shelter’s parking lot security camera returning an 8-month old Walter by dragging and pounding him heavily in the head because he wouldn’t leave the car. As would a foster child feel…Walter knew he was being returned. This family is suspected of causing him to lose 20% vision, 10% hearing loss and slight brain damage.
It’s understandable North America’s top experts declined to work with this giant dog. No one wants to be attacked or be killed by a dog as this is a valid concern. When a dog is abused, they core to the base emotional core. The efficiency of their predatorial instinct cores to their personality and ‘operational emotives’. Our own innate desire to protect ourselves from physical and psychological harm is intensified with each act of abuse. It doesn’t layer within us but instead, aggregates in conflationary terms. We become less trusting with compounding skepticism drawn from the sum of our life’s experiences.
An abused dog cores to the efficiency of their behavior…it’s similar to an introvert at a very noisy and social party…the introvert wants to escape. To go home. The abused dog simply wants to feel safe inclusive of their family. The abused dog wants to know they belong as would a child wonder if they’re adopted.
Walter couldn’t feel safe when the human’s words at each new home always ended up turning into anger. Then to beatings and put into a kennel or exiled to the garage or outdoors. There’s no way for any dog to understand what they’re doing wrong in our human world. It’s up to us, as our dog’s parent to keep this in our minds. We’re ‘asking Tarzan to leave the jungle and live in New York city’ without getting freaked out.
Tolerance and patience is difficult for us when we’re used to dogs ‘instantly’ following our requests. It’s easier for a dangerous dog to learn a performative task such as ‘sit’ than it is for the angry dog to know how to ‘count to ten’…on their own.
Your dog knows you’re not a dog. Yet, you prove to them every day of their life that you’re their parent. You feed and walk and hug and play with them on your terms. You decide when they get to go for a walk. When your dog is allowed to eat. You supervise their daily life as you would do with a three year child.
It forever behooves dog parents to prove we can protect our dog from the unpredictability of men and women and children.
To protect your dangerous dog from the roaring, rumbling truck pounding the road’s vibrations into their four paws. As they lunge seemingly without any reason.
At times, your dog’s insecurities will show in ways such as jumping and biting their leash when crossing intersections or the skittish dog frequently urinating during walks. These are psychological behaviors rooted in the dysfunctions of how your dog comprehends their ego-centrism and level of codependency with you. Self esteem, self worth, self confidence means something tangible to your dog…healthy levels of intra/co/inter dependencies. Consider these are what comprises functional consciousness at dilutive scale.
By teaching your dysfunctional dog that they are safe with you as their parent, this requires comprehending that your dog is psychologically functioning as ego-centric. This encourages healthy codependency. Yet, this requires us to willingly understand every dog’s innate need for codependency as a healthy and equitable relationship. Your dog would give their life to protect yours is why they expect you to protect them firstly. And always in familial context, not pack nor alpha. A lot of the dogs I’ve worked with and intake have been through significant courses of training and methods to no avail.
You control your dog’s entire life. Imagine their fear of abandonment that suddenly comes to them as a new emotional fear as you shoo them away to ‘teach your dog not to be afraid’. Not just the abandonment your dog recognizes…they’d been expecting you to continue protecting and guiding their life…especially since you physically tower over them. But instead, you’ve created an illogic of their relationship with and from you. Dogs expect you to protect them in all ways and forms.
Nor should you ignore their fears manifesting in real time in your dog’s behavior, that’s causing them to become anti-social. You’ll inadvertently prove to them that whenever there’s a ‘desperate matter of life or death’…their human…their parent…chooses to ignore and dismiss all their perceived fears. And instead, forcing your dog to feel like they must immediately defend their self and…defend you, their parent (a number of reasons why that will occur).
You’ve abandoned your dog to the predator (danger). It’s this trust that we can tacitly damage. We force our dog to assume that they’re on their alone in defending ‘us’. We make our dog even more insecure. Just like the school bully. We know bullies are extremely insecure and their antisocial behavior manifests similarly at school.
Then there’s how breaking your dog’s trust in you can add and cause deeper issues. For example…say you lend your friend $20 dollars. Two weeks go by and they haven’t paid you back. Four weeks go by. Then it’s three months later, you see that same friend on Facebook partying at a nightclub. Later in the week, you call them and mention the photos and the $20 they still owe you…and voila…they pay you back.
You no longer trust your friend to lend them any amount of money.
Dogs, unlike humans, are willing to learn to trust the compassionate person. Through your consistent proof of your actions and behaviors as familial in protecting your dog as a child needs to feel safe by our actions. These are the building blocks of trust.
Be Dog Woke.
Behavior is psychological. Not hungry.