Where’s The Magic?: Why Consistency Matters - a podcast by Ty Brown

Would you believe me if I told you that your dog lies to you? What if I told you that he lies to your trainer?


In the beginning stages of our training program, owners frequently say things like: “I have no idea what’s going on; my dog does great here, but when we’re at home he doesn’t behave well at all!” Obviously, as people, we look for the most glaring difference between those two situations. In one case, we’re in a training center; in the other, we’re at home. So a lot of people deduce that the training center itself is the problem. But that can’t be the case. There’s no magical quality at a training center that makes a dog automatically obey. There’s nothing about being at the center that makes a dog say, “Oh man, there are dogs everywhere and a ton of distractions around, but I’m supposed to be obedient here…so I guess that’s what I’ll do!” Owners often say that their dogs behave better when their trainers are around, but that’s not exactly accurate either.


So what’s the real issue at hand?


It’s consistency. Before I had a training center, when I worked in people’s homes, owners would tell me that their dogs behaved better when I was around. It became so common that I always joked that people should hire me to come live with them for just $50,000 a month—especially if they had a pool!

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