Every person gives off an energy that dogs detect, this energy directly influences how your dog will interact with you. So its very important we get our energy right.
Anxious Assertive Energy –
People who have anxious assertive energy are constantly concerned with how their dog feels and their emotional state.
They have a lot of anxiety regarding their pup not being treated as a person, or fairly and want all learning to be positive all the time.
Their lack of true assertion often leads to poor long-term behavior, lack of respect. Dogs often look at people with anxious assertive energy like their existence is a joke, dogs will take advantage of these kind hearted people and treat them with very little respect.
Their energy is unstable and in unfamiliar situations they will run to the calm assertive, because at the end of the day – your dog knows you are incapable of being an alpha and protecting them unless you have a strong mentality shift.
They can’t communicate effectively, and can only begin to communicate effectively once they accept that they need to change their energy style.
Calm Assertive Energy –
People who command respect from their dog by treating them with respect, by giving them instruction, structure, rules, boundaries and expectations have calm assertive energy.
They know where to be, how to act and that they are always safe with their alpha around, they have very little anxiety because if they are ever unsure, their alpha will calmly lead them.
They do not coddle their dogs, they model calm energy, dogs pick up on that and are immediately at ease. This is the person they respect with their whole being, will take a bullet for and always love more than anyone else. This is how most people in the pack should be.
Aggressive Assertive Energy –
People who are short tempered, have very high expectations but have no idea how to communicate. They have volatile, hostile and very aggressive energy that makes dogs act one of two ways aggressive or fearful. Dogs end up modeling the energy that they subjected to.
Now if that person can work on their anger and patience, and become a calm assertive pack leader a dog could respect, their dog will accept them.
Believe or not dogs live very in the moment, have a large capacity for forgiveness and in most cases an unbalanced poorly executed “correction” that you feel badly about – they let go of seconds after it happened and the second you have changed and adapt to balanced energy, and transition to a calm assertive alpha pervious behavior will be forgiven and forgotten.