Chaos K9

Specializing in high energy breeds bred for herding, police/military work, hunting, and more.

08/17/2026

I'm currently working with a dog who straight up attacks other dogs just for coming near him. No growl, no stiffening, no warning — just attacks. That behavior needed to be corrected strongly. It's never ok. After a couple of repetitions, he understood he would be corrected if he lunged, and to avoid that correction, he was forced to actually think when a dog approaches instead of just reacting into an explosion.

Today, another dog came in for play, and instead of exploding, he growled. I told him right away what a good boy he was. The other dog completely ignored the growl, so I stepped in and made that dog leave myself — and I praised him heavily while I did it, with a big celebration once the other dog was gone.

Any time people see me do this, they think I've lost my mind. "That dog was just super aggressive with a dog who was trying to be friendly, you can't reward aggression!" I'm not rewarding aggression. I'm rewarding a good choice — choosing to communicate appropriately and regulate an overwhelming impulse. And that other dog isn't friendly, it's rude AF and ignoring clear communication.

07/14/2026

Aaaaand the Labrador has discovered the garden hose 🤦‍♀️ 💦

07/08/2026

Do smart dogs require less training?

People often get highly intelligent breeds because they don't want a "dumb dog", thinking that highly intelligent dogs are easier and less time consuming to train.

The reality is that these highly intelligent dogs are often incredibly difficult and time consuming to train. Highly intelligent dogs need to question EVERYTHING. They don't just listen, they run their own experiments first — testing you, finding the loophole, banging their head against the wall a few times before deciding you might know something they don't. That takes time and reps, and no shortage of patience and skill.

Dogs with the brain power of a potato? Fastest training I do. They just listen. No existential crisis required.

So if you thought your extra smart dog going to be easy or was going to save you some money in training — think again.

07/06/2026

Nellie's latest patio manners session included a surprise distraction: a dog in the car at the stoplight next to us who got so excited to see another dog that her owner had to physically climb into the back seat to keep her from crawling through the window and running through traffic to get to us. We love a good real-world training moment.

07/03/2026

Most people can't wait to get their puppy to the patio. It's socialization, it's fun, it seems like the right call.

It's probably going to go fine.

That's the problem.

Fine feels like success. But what you're actually doing is rehearsing behaviors that are cute at twelve weeks and a serious problem at two years. Puppies don't have the impulse control or patience a busy patio demands. So they do what puppies do — they lunge toward the kid that just ran by, they strain toward the people at the next table, they spin and bark and carry on. And everyone laughs because it's adorable.

By the time it stops being cute, it's already a habit. And habits built in puppyhood are a lot harder to undo than they were to build.

The people in the biggest rush to get their puppies to the patio are usually the ones that really want a dog they can take to patios, and they're usually the ones who end up not being able to take their dog there at all.

The patio will still be there when your dog is ready for it.

07/01/2026

You can just make out a kid's white shoes on the right side of the frame. She's been calling to Nellie and trying to coax her out of the down for a while now. Rude? Yeah. Should her parents step in? Probably.

I can't control the world. But I can control how my dog responds to it.
Nellie notices her, gets a little excited — her feet start tapping like she's about to break the down — but the leash never tightens. She catches herself. Relaxes. I reward it and we go right back to what we were doing.

That's it. That's the whole thing.
Her parents probably should have handled that. But Nellie's response was never their responsibility. It's mine. And that self-control doesn't happen by accident.

06/29/2026

If you follow House of the Dragon, you no doubt noticed Sheep Stealer's apparent dental problem. That misaligned jaw has a name — an underslung jaw — and it's a conformation fault we see in both horses and dogs, particularly in bulldog type breeds.

It isn't just cosmetic, and it actually explains why Sheep Stealer has such severe behavior problems.

Because the lower jaw extends too far forward, the upper teeth have nowhere to sit correctly, they press against the tongue and lower jaw instead. The constant friction creates painful ulcers, chronic inflammation, and infection. A dog living with that level of oral pain is irritable, reactive, and difficult to work with. Eating and chewing become uncomfortable enough that food itself becomes a source of frustration, which is where you start seeing resource guarding and selectivity that looks like a behavior problem but traces directly back to physical pain. The skeletal structure that produces an underslung jaw often restricts the airway as well, meaning poor sleep, low stamina, and chronic oxygen deprivation. A dog that can't sleep properly and can't breathe well is anxious, reactive, and difficult to settle. Touch around the face and muzzle becomes aversive — an animal that flinches or snaps when you reach for its head isn't being difficult, it's protecting itself.

Sheep Stealer is widely known to be irritable and ungovernable. He has killed more riders who have tried to claim him than any other dragon in history and has actively avoided human contact his entire life. The show frames that as personality. But he's been living with this in his face his entire life. I'd argue you're looking at an animal in chronic discomfort that has learned the only way to get relief is to make the problem go away.

A dog in that much pain doesn't get labeled difficult by accident. It gets there one bad interaction at a time.

Good breeding matters. Structure is the foundation everything else is built on.

06/05/2026

5 month old Rosie ran back to me so hard her ears flipped inside out!

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