Are you so focused on what your dog is doing or not doing and when your dog does the opposite of what you want, do you feel annoyed, irritated and overwhelmed?
If so, you are putting a lot of expectation on your dog to make you feel a certain way or to relieve the stress of your life.
At the same time, you set yourself and your dog up not to be successful and you both continue to suffer.
Dogs are without self concept. They are pure being-ness.
They are without judgment of themselves or others.
They live their life with an aliveness that sometimes as humans we lose our connected to presence we don’t see experience what is happening in the heart and now.
I invite you to sit with your dog and be still.
You nor your dog have to do anything for a few moments, just be present and allow thoughts to bubble up.
When thoughts show up, look at your dog and know your dog is free of thoughts and just is and you can be that way too.
The thoughts running through your mind are not you, it’s just chatter that takes up the space and keeps you from experience what is now.
Your dog’s presence in your life is much more than the doing. They teach you how to live.
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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