Not another tip. Not another trainer. You've decided to understand the whole dog, and that's the moment things change for yours. I'm chuffed you're here.
Before you touch anything else, watch this. Eleven minutes. It resets what you think you've signed up to, and shows you what you've paid for.
Watch the video first. Then press this.
Everyone arrives asking "what do I watch?". Here's the answer, and none of it is the search bar.
There's an email from me with a link to your Behaviour Roadmap. Open it. Type in the problem you want to work on, or the phase you're in, and it lays out every lesson in the order I'd teach them if I was stood in your kitchen. That's where you start. Not the library, not the search bar. The roadmap.
It's more than the one behaviour, on purpose. A recall roadmap will have you learning about arousal, frustration and off-lead skills, because that's what recall actually is.
It's the short form in the same email. Two minutes, mostly taps. It gets everyone in the house on the same page about what's actually going on with the dog, and it's the thing you come back to and update as you learn.
Whatever your roadmap says, whatever the problem, I want you to complete the three phases. Everything a human needs to know about living with a dog is in there, and it's what secures the long-term result. Everything else on the platform (the Distraction System, Scent Games, separation anxiety, sound reactivity and the rest) is season two. None of it makes sense until you've learnt about the dog.
Any trainer can get good behaviour by throwing treats, tools or punishment at a problem. That's the easy part. Miss either of the other two and the time you spent training was wasted.
Every lesson, every series, the whole curriculum is built around those three. That's what MK9Plus really is.
There's a lot more here than most people realise. Have a scan, then get back to the roadmap.
When I get a bad review, I open that person's account. Every single one had jumped around the platform randomly. One had watched four videos, less than they'd have got from a single session with a trainer. I understand the urge to jump straight to the lesson you think you need. But you probably need to learn how nuts your dog is before you start on their recall. I know what you need to learn and the order to learn it in. Trust the order.
Living with a dog is a series of events, and you'll learn and learn and learn. Email me. Join the lives. Ask the chatbot. Good behaviour, no underlying issues, a future-proof dog. That's the bare minimum I want for you and your dog. Anything less and you're still left always training.
Have a lovely time in here.
Don't de-dog your dog. Max