Keeley Corbell is a dog trainer in Florida. One of her services, and this blew my mind, is called

Board and Train, where she'll actually take your dog into her home and work with them for two

and a half weeks. But her success depends as much on the owner as it does on the dog. Often, she says,

The owner's entire life has to change

because aggression and behavioral issues

like reactivity, separation anxiety,

extreme fearfulness, resource guarding, and aggression,

those aren't behaviors that with training,

we fix those magically and they just go away.

Your dog is always going to have that in them and through training, we fix those magically and they just go away. Your dog is always going to have that in them. And through training and making life changes, it turns into management. And obviously,

those kinds of management changes are really hard for people to make. I don't blame the owners

for feeling overwhelmed or not being consistent because you got a

dog so maybe they could be on the couch with you at night or you wanted the dog to sleep in the

bed with you. And unfortunately, those things that you wanted are no longer going to be something

that you have and you have to let it, and you have to make the changes.

Sometimes you get the dog that you don't want, but it teaches you all the things that you never

knew you needed to learn.

Is it harder to train dogs or to train owners?

What do you think?

I'm going to guess the latter.

Yeah, it's definitely owners.

Keeley says something she always tells new dog trainers is.

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