E345-Dog Owners Do This to Stop Stress — It Actually Makes It Worse
No Bad Dogs Podcast
Tom Davis
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Tom speaks about a session he had with a client regarding reactivity AND a fearful dog. She didn't realize how much stress she was adding by trying to stop stress.
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| 0:00.0 | I love dogs and I'm a professional dog trainer and recently I had a client that I |
| 0:09.3 | worked with really kind of like blew my mind and one of the things that we were |
| 0:15.1 | talking about which which we've discussed before by the way guys welcome back to |
| 0:19.8 | the No Bad Dogs podcast and my second |
| 0:21.5 | youtube channel if you're watching this on youtube this is where and if you if you're new |
| 0:27.2 | here thank you for hanging out i'm tom davis and professional dog trainer also we have over |
| 0:32.3 | 300 other episodes that you guys should check out with different guests and different topics |
| 0:36.6 | etc but that you guys should check out with different guests and different topics, etc. |
| 0:46.5 | This, I was working with this client online yesterday. |
| 0:47.6 | I do online consulting. |
| 0:48.4 | You call in. |
| 0:49.7 | We talk about your dog for an hour. |
| 1:19.6 | And this, I don't know if it was an epiphany, but it was this, whoa, I think dog owners really need to have context on this because they don't understand it. They don't think about it. And she had a problem with her dog that was really like shutting down and and pancaking if you guys have ever had a dog that when you try to get them to go into a the car or |
| 1:25.6 | Going a walk or or going to the vet even where they just pancake and they're like you know they won't move |
| 1:28.3 | Well, that's what this dog did. And I don't know how I want to go down this road. |
| 1:34.3 | They had worked with four other previous trainers, all in which we're using positive reinforcement training, which there's nothing wrong with. |
| 1:44.5 | I use positive reinforcement 99.9% of the time. |
| 1:48.9 | But the problem that they were running into, and this is where it gets really frustrating for |
| 1:52.5 | me as a dog owner first and then of course a trainer. |
| 1:56.9 | And it's frustrating because they had been working on this particular thing for so long. |
| 2:02.9 | They work with the behaviorists. |
| 2:04.0 | Of course, behaviors gave the dog meds. |
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