Is it the Dog – Human bond or the Human – Dog bond? Whichever you prefer, isn’t that where everything between you and your dog starts? 
We hope this blog can help you with interesting and useful information on dog behavior, training, activities, even exercise. We’d like to share with you from our personal experience, and also present other folks info that we have vetted as credible. We look forward to hearing about your experience, questions and wisdom in the comments we encourage you to post. Now, back to where it all starts…
Choices
Once you have your dog, much of the experience you and your dog share, will be formed by the type of relationship you choose to develop. Did you know that you can choose different ways of relating to your dog? If you happen to use a dog trainer, the trainer will have a different type of relationship with your dog than you will as parent/guardian/family of your dog. Other family members may also relate to your dog in their own way, not the same as you do.
Will/are you using a “Partnership” model, or do you prefer to be “Pack Leader”? Are you attracted to “Obedience Training”? Will you need your dog to perform specific tasks or have certain skills? With some problem dogs, no choice was made as to how the guardian would relate to their dog, or what they expected of the dog. 
Together, let’s explore some of these choices, and share some of the experiences we’ve had with our dogs.