How Training Dogs Makes Me a Better Front-End Lead

Behavior is Lawful

Me, on the day my first dog, Bonnie, earned her Companion Dog Obedience title in April 1986. Photo by Charles Melvin Blankenship.

Trigger warning: contains discussion of behavioral psychology, and I acknowledge that this technology has been abused with some people. If that’s you, you might want to skip this post.

I’ve been training dogs as a hobby off and on since I was fifteen. In that time, I’ve changed a lot and dog training has changed a lot…