E374- Why Talking To Your Dog RUINS Your Relationship...
No Bad Dogs Podcast
Tom Davis
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Dog Trainer Tom Davis talks about why talking to your dog may be harming your relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | Talking to your dog ruins your relationship with your dog. |
| 0:04.0 | Guys, I'm a pro dog trainer of over a decade and I'm an expert in reactivity and aggressive dogs. |
| 0:09.0 | Guys, this is possibly the single-handed biggest reasons why dogs become reactive and insecure. |
| 0:16.0 | Let me explain. |
| 0:23.6 | Guys, welcome to the No Bad Dogs podcast. Thank you so much for being here. And make sure you guys subscribe to my second YouTube channel and check out all of the other episodes that we have because this is going to be on my second YouTube channel and of course on the No Bad Dogs |
| 0:37.8 | podcast. Let me explain. If you guys are looking at your screen right now trying to figure out what the |
| 0:42.3 | heck I'm talking about, this guy is losing his mind. I talk to my dogs all the time and they love it. |
| 0:47.8 | Well, let me just, I want to dive into this and that's what this podcast is about. That's what |
| 0:52.8 | the second channel is about. It's really important for you guys to understand this. And that's what this podcast is about. That's what this second channel is about. |
| 0:59.9 | It's really important for you guys to understand this. When you come home, let's say you go to work or whatever, and you come home after a long day and you drop your keys in the counter. And you |
| 1:04.1 | immediately start telling your dog about the terrible traffic in the commute and how somebody |
| 1:09.7 | at somebody at work ate your lunch we pour our |
| 1:13.0 | hearts out to them we explained why they can't have a bite of our sandwich and ask them how |
| 1:18.8 | their day was hey did you have a good day today how was the couch now we love our dogs and |
| 1:23.5 | because they are part of our family we naturally communicate with them the exact same way that we communicate with our family or our human members of our household. |
| 1:33.1 | So you have to understand that when we start doing things like this, your dog is confused. |
| 1:40.4 | Your dog is looking at you like, what are you talking about? |
| 1:42.9 | Treating your dog like a human when we speak to them is actually doing way more harm than good. |
| 1:50.3 | Now, I've done this bit so many times on social media and people get pissed off. |
| 1:54.7 | But as a dog trainer, I see this every single day. |
| 1:57.5 | And we think our constant chatter shows affection and builds a bond. But the |
| 2:02.0 | reality is, is talking to our dogs like human severely decreases their engagement with us. |
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