“Dogs are not stubborn, spiteful, or withholding. They either haven’t been adequately taught and the behavior sufficiently proofed, or they have not been motivated to act. There are no other options.
In a related development, training in the scientific manner also requires that massive and personally challenging thing called a paradigm shift (with apologies for resorting to a cliché, but it is the only shoe that fits here). One must get out from under historically weighty beliefs, which also happen to be utterly wrong, of how dogs work.
As with a bridge, though, these conceptions of dogs amount to pilings that are sunk deep, through multiple geologic layers of belief. You have to pull them out from the sucking notions of free will. And beneath that from wishful thinking. And beneath that from bedrock beliefs of what we’re all doing here in the first place.
Oh, is that all? Just change the worldview bequeathed to you by thousands of years of Western thought, and you, too, can get your dog to come when called.”
— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)
How vocal is Llywelyn? I love little poodles but I've never really spent much time around them. I guess he might be a bit of an exception since he's a working dog tho lol
Unfortunately, god nerfed this dog by giving him the world's shrillest voice and the desire to use it all the fucking time. He's pretty good when he's working, but he could also be doing more to dispel yappy poodle stereotype.