Anyone who knows who Bruce Lee is, and who really doesn’t know who he is, would likely know he is often held with high regard as being one of the best martial artists of all time.

But what would he be able to teach us if here were a dog trainer instead?

Well, take a moment to know what he did as a martial artist. For those who actually do not know, he founded his own martial art known as Jeet Kuna Do. Without going into a long winded seminar about marital arts, the main point here is that he created his own techniques.

He studied other martial arts, such as Kung Fu, Karate, and others and learned what aspects of those martial arts worked and which ones did not. He then kept the ones that worked and excluded the non-working methods from his training.

Ahhh. Training. Just like martial arts training, pet training requires many of the same principles. You must be

• consistent
• train properly
• train often
• you must train what works
• you get rid of what doesn’t

Each person is going to train their own dog their own way. No one way is truly perfect for all owners or all pets. While not everyone will become the world’s best pet trainer, ever person has to take some active role in training their own pet.

Whether your pet learns to behave or your pet learns to misbehave, both are based on how you do, or don’t, train your pet.

I have not invented a “new style,” composite, modified or otherwise that is set within distinct form as apart from “this” method or “that” method. On the contrary, I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns, or molds.

- Bruce Lee

Lee, Bruce (September 1971). “[1] Liberate Yourself From Classical Karate”. Black Belt Magazine (Rainbow Publications, Inc.) 9 (9): 24.

I found this video today. This is a prime example of a well trained dog. While everyone may not think they need their dog to be this well-behaved, you should at least make sure your dogs adhere to important commands this well.

Important commands, such as sit, stay, or come should be done by your dog without any hesitation. This is for both your protection and the dogs. So strive for perfection on at least those three commands. Everything else will be a bonus.

Enjoy the video.

We get e-mails every day from people just like yourself. Many of them have become frustrated, stressed, and say they are ready to give up. Often we here the same complaint: “My dog isn’t trainable”.

Yes, You heard me correctly. People are claiming that their dogs cannot be trained. As we know and even Pavlov himself has proven time and again, ALL DOGS ARE TRAINABLE!!!

Yes all dogs, without exception can be taught something, and they can learn something. However much like going through school ourselves, it is not always the students fault. Sometimes the blame is the teachers. No, not our fault, but you the one training the dog.

This has prompted us to release a series this week of ten things you (the dog trainer) must learn, know, or do before you can even start to train your dogs.

For some of you these steps may come as a shock, others maybe not. But they are all necessary and they will all make an impact on how you train your dogs.

So since dogs can learn, and it is up to you to teach them, lets spend a few days to see how we can become better trainers. See you this week.