More emotional. More impulsive. Completely unpredictable. This lesson explains adolescence better than you have ever heard it explained, and then flips the whole thing on its head.
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Everything you just watched is broken down visually below↓
Emotional, reactive, impulsive. So the days become one long game of damage control.
Between 6 months and 2 years, insulation called myelin wraps the brain's wiring and speeds it up. The catch? It starts at the back.
Two classics. Both of them leave you doing exactly nothing.
Just wait. Get to two years and collect your logical dog. Except I have watched plenty of dogs hit two, then three, then four... with exactly the same problems.
Apparently you're just screwed while the brain develops. Lovely. Eighteen months of white-knuckling it and hoping. That is not a plan, that is a prayer.
Both belong in the bin 🚮
On paper we teach the dog to go to a mat. But it is not about what you teach. It is about how you teach it. This one is shaping: I say nothing, I do nothing, and the dog figures the whole thing out.
The dog hits little walls of frustration and learns to work through them, building the frustration tolerance adolescents are famously missing.
Recall, sit, down, stay, ignoring food. The dog learns there are other routes to what they want. Not "I want it, I take it", but figuring out the maze.
No commands, no telling off. The dog makes every single decision from start to finish, and you become the fun puzzle. Get the monkey moving.
Do it in the kitchen, the car, outside. We don't want dogs that think in straight lines. We want dogs that figure out the maze.
Here's the proof. If adolescence were causing your issues, they would be shrinking as the brain matures. So be honest: which way are yours going?
Not much exercise needed. Not much mental stimulation. Not much breed specific enrichment. Honestly? Quite an easy dog to have.
Closer and closer to their prime: a fit, powerful dog that needs more. And I don't care if it's a sausage dog, I've got one, she's hard work. If the life doesn't grow with them, the frustration does.
No more chaos, no more waiting, no more white knuckles. Three steps, in order.
Waiting is the most dangerous move available: the dog just gets more frustrated, more stressed, more aroused. And training only manages behaviour, it cannot touch the state your dog is in. Keep the bonus video above, but know what it can and cannot do.
Is it frustration? Arousal? Broken sleep? Stress? Even pain? Something is being missed as your puppy grows into a dog, and until you name it, everything else is guesswork.
Give the growing dog what the months are demanding, and the state fixes itself, then the behaviour follows. This is exactly what MK9Plus walks you through, step by step, with me alongside you.
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Eight lessons covering the brain, the behaviour, the breeds and the fixes. A plan for every month of the teenage years.
Frustration, stress, arousal or under-provision? The Under the Surface lessons find what your growing dog is actually missing.
Tell me about your teenager, and get a plan for your actual dog, not a generic age bracket.
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Diet, sleep, enrichment, outlets, training. Everything, including every future upload.
Full of people surviving, and enjoying, the exact same teenage months as you.
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Either way, the only thing guaranteed not to help is waiting for them to grow out of it.
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