Tipping the Scales

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Are you wanting compliance and obedience or do you want behavior change?

Just to be clear, they aren’t one and the same.

You may also be thinking that I’m only talking about dogs, but I’m also talking to you too.

If you’re unsure of what you want, that’s an ok place to be.

That’s because you’re feeling the pull in both directions of what matters to you.

Sometimes what we value is in conflict with one another and discovering what is your motivation in changing something in your life, is your first step.

When you are looking to make a change that is also includes the life of another being, you are no longer looking to make a choice based on what you desire, but also considering the other person or in this case, your dog too.

Uncovering what matters to you and your dog is no longer what you only want, but what you and your dog want together.

Connection, freedom, companionship and a loving bond.

Now, when you look back at the question of what do you want, compliance/obedience or behavior change, do you feel a shift of what matters to you?

Does the scale tip in one direction or another?

You may be feeling how out of balance the value of obedience and compliance is and how something greater is possible for you both.

If obedience and compliance is feeling less enticing, you are feeling into how the values of connection, freedom, companionship and a loving bond first and foremost and how these values aren’t born out of telling the other person or other being what to do and when to do it, so they perform.

You are opening yourself up to the possibility that your dog wants the same things as you do, but in a more dog friendly way.

You start making choices that consider how your dog feels alongside what you want your life to look like too.

Now, you want to know how to translate the value of companionship, connection, freedom and loving bond into motivation for you and your dog.

This is where the adventure begins!

You can set up a Discovery Call and explore how you want your life with your dog to feel like in 2024!

Published by houndbiz

Katherine Porter is a force free, reward based dog behavior advisor and consultant serving clients and their companion dogs worldwide. Her calm and gentle approach in coaching clients in effectively communicating what they want to their dog blends her MSW background into her dog training and behavior practice. Katherine was a behavior consultant for Heeling Hounds after graduation. She opened Four Paws and You Dog Training LLC when the military relocated her family to Fort Sill, OK in 2015. During this time, she volunteered with Rainbow Bridge Can Wait where she provided post adoption consultations to new pet parents. She also developed and implemented tailored behavior modification plans for highly reactive dogs residing at the shelter. She also provided educational programs to military children through interactive workshops at the Fort Sill School Age Center. In 2017, Katherine relocated Four Paws and You Dog Training LLC to Germany. She served the Armed Forces communities in Bavaria. She continued coaching and advising her clients in addressing their companion dog’s fearful and reactive behavioral issues. Katherine takes a Do No Harm approach first and foremost in providing behavioral plans. She is committed in serving clients with gentle and modern science approaches in modifying behavioral concerns such as reactivity, aggression, separation anxiety and fear based responses. Katherine is a member of the Pet Professional Guild. She is focused on integrating a holistic and modern approach in addressing her client’s pet companion reactive behavior issues.

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