Love Is All You Need Quotes

“Here are a few more important principals that our dogs live by: • Bonding with those I love and care about is of primary importance. • I forgive others quickly and completely. • If it runs from me, I should chase it. If it chases me, I should run from it. • I never approach someone head-on. That might be seen as threatening. • If something scares me, I try to look larger. If it terrifies me, I try to look smaller. • If it’s human, I try extremely hard to make it happy.”
― Jennifer Arnold, Love Is All You Need: The Revolutionary Bond-Based Approach to Educating Your Dog

“Force is always my last resort.” True aggression that causes significant injury is not something a dog wants to use. Dogs will do almost anything to avoid using their teeth to cause harm. Puppies first learn bite inhibition from their mothers and their littermates. The exception to this dictum is when dogs respond reflexively in self-defense to something that causes pain or fear, making rational thought impossible.”
― Jennifer Arnold, Love Is All You Need: The Revolutionary Bond-Based Approach to Educating Your Dog

“Though many pet parents believe that their dogs experience guilt, there is no evidence that this is true. In order for our dogs to feel guilty about doing something that we people perceive as wrong, they must have a clear understanding of our human code of conduct and an awareness of the precise actions they took that violated that code. That requires complex cognitive processes experts believe are beyond the range of dogs.”
― Jennifer Arnold, Love Is All You Need: The Revolutionary Bond-Based Approach to Educating Your Dog