4 Dog Training Lessons from the Lockdown

It has been incredible to see the way our lives have changed over the last six weeks, since New Zealand entered lockdown. Hopefully we will soon be able to return to a less restricted way of life, but in the meantime here’s a few “human training” lessons from the lockdown that we can apply to our dogs.

1) Unclear criteria cause frustration and anxiety

During the early weeks of lockdown I saw a lot of posts on social media from people who were unsure whether they could or couldn’t do something. There was never a real threat of harsh punishment (our police in NZ usually prefer education to handcuffs in my limited and white privilege-laden experience) but just the possibility that they might be pulled over and asked to go back home seemed to stress some people out.