🐾 This is More Common Than You Think

We’ve made so much progress with one thing… and now something ELSE has appeared.”

This is more common than you think.

Behaviour change isn’t always a neat process where one difficulty disappears before we move onto the next.

Sometimes reducing one source of stress gives us enough space to finally notice something else.

Sometimes a dog has more capacity to communicate.

Sometimes circumstances change.

Sometimes one behaviour was masking another.

And sometimes dogs simply continue learning and changing because they’re living beings, not finished projects.

A new difficulty appearing doesn’t erase the work you’ve already done.

You haven’t necessarily gone backwards.

You may simply be seeing a part of the picture that wasn’t visible before.

Behaviour isn’t a checklist we eventually complete.

It’s an ongoing conversation. 🩵