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Go to obedience school training with your dog. You have to learn to communicate clearly about boundaries when you work with animals.
This obviously isn’t for everybody, but it’s surprising how effective it is. When someone is giving you feedback about the messages you are sending to your dog, you often learn a great deal about your general communications style. When you do this together, learning to provide consistent messages to your dog, you tend to see your own patterns of inconsistencies and learn to correct them.
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it:
Spend some time researching obedience school training classes. Your veterinarian, a local pet store and friends are all good resources.
This is an excerpt from Being Happy Together: How to Have a Fabulous Relationship With Your Life Partner in Less Than an Hour a Week, by Laurie Weiss, Ph.D.
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