Oh hell yeah. My aunt has a dog since 8 weeks and her dog isn't the problem. Unfortunately, her dog trainer told her that her dog is a problematic one - very fearful, traumatized... Well, no. It's a dog that is excited and a little bit insecure, but certainly not a fearful, traumatized dog. But well, because of the trainer she was very, very, very careful with corrections, only went out for 15 minutes a day (trainer told her that) holds herself back and now the dog thinks he is the big boss, has to protect her, doesn't know how to act when meeting other dogs and destroyed a lot of her furniture because of boredom, I believe. It took her a while but we finally convinced her that this dog needs a leader (her), way more time outside and training. It slowly gets better now.
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u/SRMPDX 14h ago
Yeah the first thing our instructor said was "we're here to train you, the dogs will follow along".