If pain and discomfort are huge contributing factors to behaviour struggles—including aggression, frustration, and anxiety… Does it make you wonder how we can be so cruel? How incredibly tolerant dogs really are with our behaviour? There are truly wonderful unqualified trainers. But in an unregulated industry, there’s no formal pathway for addressing harmful or unethical training practices. I meet emotionally and financially exhausted clients. Their dogs have endured harsh methods. And later we discover undiagnosed hip dysplasia. Arthritis. GI disorders. It is animal abuse. Right in front of us. And it’s utterly heartbreaking