Is Your Pup in Charge?
Let’s talk about confident energy. This specific energy helps your pup identify you as the pack leader in your home. If you send excited or submissive energy instead, your furry friend will learn bad habits and assume the leadership role for you!
Here are a few essential tips to help you project the calm, leadership energy your pup expects:
Remember that your dog is an animal. Animals communicate through energy, not words. So your energy tells your pup whether or not you are in control.
You should project calm, confident energy from the first time you meet a dog—not nervousness or excitement. Dogs do not follow emotional or lovable leaders. They follow calm leaders.
Resist the urge to make the dog your “baby.” Make your pup’s need for a strong leader the priority, not your fulfillment.
Understand that leadership happens every day—forever. If you are a “sometimes” leader, your dog will start telling you what to do.
If you want to be the pack leader in your home, you have to speak your dog’s language: energy! When you allow emotions like anger, frustration, or even love to dominate, you’ll lose your ability to be a calm leader. You have to understand that reserving loving energy is not cruel—it’s meeting your dog’s primary need for leadership.
