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Originally Posted by Kandyam  I sometimes get too caught up in reading into articles about how your dog should act but in reality every dog or animal in general each their own personality and traits. |
I fell into that trap the first year I had my first Yorkie, my first puppy. Now I disagree with a lot of trainers, especially those who want little robotic dogs or fully submissive dogs.
I do not try to control my dogs' every movement. Instead, I try to make life fun so that they will want to behave in a pleasing way -- that includes little personality quirks.
My dogs are not perfect and we still work on things that may never be fixed: they have an annoying barking game in the car.
But they are good guys 95% of the time, so I'm not going to crush their spirit to try to fix that 5% of naughty.