E382- The #1 Thing Dog Owners Do That Confuses Their Dogs
No Bad Dogs Podcast
Tom Davis
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Dog Trainer Tom Davis talks about the #1 thing all dog owners do that ruin their relationship and training with their dog!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the No Bad Dogs podcast and my second YouTube channel. |
| 0:05.0 | Today we're going to be talking about something that every single yes you dog owner does. |
| 0:10.5 | And it is harmful for your relationship. And when you fix it, it could absolutely be a game changer |
| 0:17.4 | and having a clearer relationship and expediting your dog training tremendously. |
| 0:27.6 | And today we're going to be talking about repeating commands and why dog owners do it without even realizing it and also why it's harmful |
| 0:42.4 | for your relationship coming from a dog trainer. |
| 0:45.0 | But first, before we get into that, let's watch a clip of somebody actually doing this in real time. |
| 0:50.4 | Do you have a stay command with him? |
| 0:52.8 | Stay. He knows stay. |
| 1:31.3 | Let's do a stay command. Just walk. Yeah. As far as I can go here? Stay. Good. I'll stay. And just move away a little bit. Stay. Good stay. So you could tell him good stay instead of telling him to stay. Okay. And the reason is. Good. And he gets word, he knows word good. Yeah, so good stay. Good stay. So if he's doing the behavior and he's doing it well, we say good stay. If he's doing the behavior and he's doing it well and you tell him to do the behavior, he's going to be confused. Okay. See what I'm saying? So he's good stay. Yeah. Because if he's staying, staying and then he look at him and say stay, he's like, I am saying. But if you say good stay, it's reinforcing that he's doing good stay. |
| 1:35.3 | Okay, good stay. |
| 1:36.3 | Stay sets. |
| 1:37.3 | Okay, now walk backwards a little bit. |
| 1:39.3 | Me. |
| 1:40.3 | Stay. |
| 1:41.3 | Good stay. |
| 1:42.3 | Good stay. |
| 1:43.3 | You down, down. Good down. Good down. Yes, that's right. |
| 1:51.7 | Stay. Oh, only once. Good stay. Only once too, right. What's that? The commands. |
| 1:58.2 | Yeah. Don't keep saying. Right. Don't keep repeating him. Okay. You just want the confidence, right? Like, do this. Thank you. That's going to be a heart. We've got to break this. Yeah. Multiple. Correct. Correct. So you guys can see right there, it's something that is, I think, a habit for most dog owners we tend to just i think our |
| 2:21.4 | what happens guys is our mind says i want the dog to stay i want the dog to sit i want the dog to do |
| 2:28.3 | whatever behavior it is even recall and if the dog doesn't do it what our brain does is we just throw it out again. We throw it out |
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