It started as a throwaway line. One of our trainers, Ashley, mid-class, room full of puppies: "Sit is overrated." The room laughed. Then a few people looked up like she might be serious.
She was. We all are. And after fifteen years of teaching Twin Cities dogs, we've finally said it in writing — on two pages that were a long time coming.
The Manifesto
The stance. Who we are, what's different, why play is the language, and who we're for.
The Go Anywhere Dog® ManifestoThe Methodology
The machinery. The method behind every Go Anywhere Dog®, drawn as the building it actually is: a foundation, two pillars, one earned tool, and the result they hold up.
The Go Anywhere Dog® MethodologyRead them in that order. The first tells you what we believe. The second shows you what we do about it in every class we teach.
Why now? Fifteen years is a round number, and the words had to be right before anything else was. Here's the one thing that never changed: we're not really dog trainers. We're family trainers, and the dog is the fun part.
Next in Speaking Dog
Taking back
the words.
Over the next seven weeks we're also taking back the words the industry broke — calm, leader, naughty, obedience, punishment, boundaries — and one we say on purpose. The first one lands Friday.
