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1. Your dog isn't human.
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2. Your dog doesn't speak English.
Take the word ?no,? for example. Does your dog speak English? Not understand English. Does she speak it? What's meaningful to her is your tone of voice Cheap Nike Air VaporMax , not the word itself. Now let's think about that ? we're taking up excess time trying to teach our dog a word she'll never speak and that probably doesn't mean much to her anyway. Sure, it's meaningful to us, but that's only one side of the equation. What about something that's meaningful to both human and dog?
3. You know what a growl means, and your dog knows what a growl means.
If you think that mutually meaningful language doesn't exist Cheap Nike VaporMax , you're not thinking creatively enough. What does it say to you when a dog growls at you? Anything from ?get away from my food? to ?back off, dude,? right? Yet in every case, a dog's growl typically means that she is not happy with whatever you've done. And you've seen dogs react to other dogs? growls Cheap Nike Air Max 720 , right? So you know what a growl means, and your dog knows what a growl means. Where's the disconnect? Growl at your dog!
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