12/03/2026
EMPOWERING OTHER PACK MEMBERS
If your dog listens to, and respects you, you can help your dog to respect others too:
🖤 Allow others to communicate with them first, rather than you giving every command (in this video Daphne is telling Ro to “move back” because she knows he isn’t supposed to walk in front of her of her bike / pram).
🖤 If your dog doesn’t listen to what they say, you can back up the other person by following through with them still next to you. Try not to take over completely but act like a team working together (in this case I back up Daphne’s ask verbally and by using her bike to enforce what she said).
🖤This works for other dogs or other animals too! For example, if you’ve seen your other dog or cat asking for space and not getting it, you can enforce that this happens so the dog in question learns they have to listen and respect the others in the pack.
🖤 This is how you make kids, elderly family members or those less able, have as much respect as you get, even though they don’t (because they cant) do as much of the work.