216. The Dog Training Problems You Can Ignore, and the Ones That Come Back to Bite You

<p>So there's a thing I see all the time with our members, (and if I'm honest, I do it myself) , which is you look at your dog and see the bit that's not quite working, and you just go and do training that is working instead. Foundation certificate, there's a wobble in something and the answer is "we'll go to novice anyway," and the wobble's still there; it never went anywhere, you just stopped looking at it.</p><p><br></p><p>This week I LWDG Group Expert Claire Denyer, and I pull that apart and work out where the line actually sits, because not everything you're avoiding matters, and some of it really, really does. Claire's got example after example: the boring stuff at home you let slide because it's "just the house," the fearful dog everyone wants to wrap in cotton wool when what they actually need is the opposite, and the bit about symptoms versus root causes properly stopped me in my tracks.</p><p><br></p><p>If you've been hoping a problem's going to sort itself out, don't skip this one.</p><p></p><p><strong><em><u>Thanks for being here. </u></em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>If this episode gave you something, a laugh, a lightbulb, or just the feeling that someone gets it, that's exactly why we make it.</p><p>📚 <strong>Not sure where to start with your gundog training?</strong> Grab the <a href="https://ladiesworkingdoggroup.com/lwdg-level-finder/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>LWDG Gundog Progress Gap Map</strong></a><strong>. Work out where</strong> you exactly where you are and what to work on next, no more guessing needed.</p>