There is a tendency among dog guardians to think of the behaviours we see in our dogs as being either ‘good’ or ‘bad’. There are the desirable behaviours, the things that we want our dogs to do, and the undesirable ones, those behaviours we may call misbehaving, being naughty, behaviour problems, and so on.
The thing is that these labels of behaviour are not really either accurate or useful.
When looking at the things our dogs do, what we need to be asking ourselves is ‘What is my dog trying to tell me?’
