WHEN THE WEEK HAS FALLEN APART
A bad week is not a verdict.
Most dogs are not given up because they are bad dogs. They are given up after a bad week — the accidents come back, the biting sharpens, the routine collapses, and a tired family quietly decides they have failed.
Usually they have not. They need a reset, not a rehoming.
This will not tell you that every dog and every family can be made to work. It will help you tell a bad period apart from a wrong match, so that whatever you decide, you decide it from a steady picture rather than from the worst week you have had.
What’s in it
- Six questions: is this a bad week, or is this the wrong match?
- What a reset actually is, and what it cannot fix
- Dropping freedom back, and earning it again one step at a time
- What to reset, depending on what broke
- The day you have nothing left
- When it is not a bad week, and letting a dog go is the right answer