Wellbeing Wisdom Tiny Bites - Nipping Mistrust in the Bud

Have you ever tried to teach a puppy not to nip and bite at your hands? Using their mouths is how puppies play with their littermates, so it naturally translates to mouthing their new human littermate – you! Those sharp little puppy teeth hurt, and yet we love the puppy so we don’t want to hurt its feelings. We might tell them to stop biting, and yet we’re not consistent and we’re not firm and so the biting continues.

It’s the same with people – well, minus the actual biting, hopefully!

When the words we use with our co-workers, our partners or our children don’t match the actions we take, there’s a big disconnect in communication. Dogs and people both watch and learn more from our actions than they do from our words, and when the words don’t match the actions, you’re sowing seeds of mistrust.

Think about what you want people to know about you and learn from you – are you modeling those things in your actions? If not, lay out the steps you can take right now to start walking your talk. Your relationships with puppies and people will benefit, I promise!

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