The DogSmith Blog

DogSmith Tips – To generalize the ‘down’ behavior, have your dog ‘sit’ & ‘down’ before you open doors, give it its food bowl or put on its leash. Another good exercise is to do doggy ‘sit ups’ as follows; have your dog go from ‘sit’ to ‘down’ and then back to ‘sit’ four times and then give it a treat. Always give your dog the treat when it is in the correct position, ‘down’ or sit’.

When Dwight D. Eisenhower quoted this I don’t think for a minute he was refereeing to dogs, but what similarities there are. Force, no matter how concealed, produces resistance. “Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one of the desk-pounding types [...]