> Nope! There would only be a discipline problem if the command wasn’t obeyed which has never happened..
It is a discipline problem whether you realize it or not. First, your dog should never be in a position of using something that is “yours”. That all too easily lends itself to dispute should your dog decide to test its position in your Pack, as most dogs occasionally do.
Second, your dog should never be in a position where its eye-level is elevated relative to humans. Never. A dog on a couch has its eye level at about three-year-old height: which is the age where a surprising number of kids get bitten. In the face.
In the photos you also see several pictures of the dog looking down on the human. That too is a big mistake.
> I’d hate to be around your dogs if you don’t realize this and I am seriously beginning to question your claim as a trainer.
Fortunately for me, I do not need to prove my credentials as a dog trainer to you. My dogs behave well and, for me, that is sufficient proof of my credibility. Equally fortunately for my dogs, they will never need to learn bad habits from you.
It sounds to me like both you and your dogs may be in need of remedial training.
ROTFLOL...I'm traing dogs not pre-school children! In dog training a command is given and it is obeyed or training is unaccomplished. I could care less where a dog chooses to lie but when I command it to come, sit, stay, heel, lie, attack, release or "get off the couch" it better do what and when it is commanded to do (which, in my case, ALWAYS happens).
Fortunately for me, I do not need to prove my credentials as a dog trainer to you. My dogs behave well and, for me, that is sufficient proof of my credibility.
As for me!