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What It Means When You Love Your Dog but Don’t Enjoy Being Around Them | Dog Training Burnout
· 6:13 · Episode 237 · Explicit
Episode What It Means When You Love Your Dog but Don’t Enjoy Being Around Them | Dog Training Burnout
You love your dog. You also spent today wishing they had an off switch.
There are days when everything they do is the thing: the pacing, the nudging, the ball dropped at your feet for the fourteenth time, and you are already running on empty before any of it even starts. Then the guilt shows up, because you're supposed to love this, you chose this dog, you know what they need. But loving them completely and needing a break from them can both be true on the exact same day, and neither one cancels the other out.
You'll hear:
• Why the exact same request from your dog feels completely different depending on how much you have left to give that day • The specific, twisted logic guilt uses to convince you that being tired means you didn't love them enough, and why that logic is wrong • What the realest version of love actually looks like on the hardest days, and why it has nothing to do with feeling good in the moment
Press play if you've ever loved your dog completely and still needed them to just stop for five minutes.
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This podcast explores life with dogs, dog behavior, dog behavior problems, dog obedience, dog anxiety, reactive dogs, dog reactivity, and dog training. It's for the dog community navigating overwhelm, guilt, burnout, and self-doubt while struggling to keep up with a dog who asks for more. Episodes cover canine nutrition, dog food, dog enrichment, dog body language, dog communication, emotional healing, self-trust, personal growth, and finding real relief in the connection you have with your dog. Whether you're raising a reactive dog, feeling discouraged, or simply trying to better understand your dog and yourself, this podcast helps you create a calmer life together and strengthen the bond that changes both of you. We're now building to take this conversation on the road, bringing honest support directly to dog parents around the world.
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