About Dog Psychology 101

The dog was never really the problem.

Dogs don't need more training. They need more understanding.

Most people come to me after they have already tried the classes, the videos, the three different opinions. They have the commands. What nobody ever taught them is what the dog is actually reading, moment to moment, and until you know that, no amount of obedience reaches it. Training tells a dog what to do. Understanding tells you why they are doing what they are already doing. One of those changes behavior. The other manages it.

Everything in this store came out of that work, with real dogs. Not a design trend, not a template, not a print-on-demand catalog someone slapped a logo on.

I'm Angie Woods. I've spent nearly 40 years with dogs. Seventeen of those were inside veterinary medicine, where I learned what stress actually does to an animal's body. The next twenty-plus I spent building and running U.S. Canine, my specialty behavior campus outside Atlanta for severe and complex cases. The dogs other trainers sent away. The dogs veterinarians and shelters called about when standard training had already failed.

Along the way that work brought in celebrities, professional athletes, and public figures who needed help with dogs nobody else could reach. Same problems as everyone else's, just with more people watching.

That's where these designs come from.

"Whatever you love, you get more of" is not a slogan I wrote for a shirt. It is the shortest true thing I know about dogs, and about people. The behavior you give your attention to is the behavior that grows. Every design here says something I actually believe.

What Dog Psychology 101 is

It isn't obedience. It's leadership, emotional regulation, boundaries, relationship, and understanding the dog in front of you instead of the dog in the manual.

I created Dogenality℠, the first personality assessment system built for dogs, and the Humanality framework that identifies how five human types show up in the relationship, for better or worse. Together they became the Dogenality℠ + Humanality Match System, built for shelters and rescues to make adoptions that hold.

Underneath all of it is one idea most of the industry skips: your dog is reading your emotional state, chemically, before you say a word. The human isn't separate from the problem. The human is where the solution starts.

Balance the Human + Rehab the Dog = Happy Life.

About what we make

Printed on demand, one piece at a time, so nothing sits in a warehouse waiting for someone to want it.

Every listing includes a full size chart with the manufacturer's garment measurements, plus a fit note telling you which way to go if you are between sizes. Because each piece is made to order, we can't accept returns or exchanges for the wrong size. Check the chart before you order.

Free U.S. shipping on everything.

Where to go next

Learn the work at DogPsychology101.com. Bio, the 3 Pillars, the 4 Games, and how the frameworks fit together.

Find your dog's type with the free Dogenality℠ quiz.

Dog Corps, my 501(c)(3), running no-cost spay and neuter clinics, crisis response, and humane education around the world.

Questions about an order or anything else: info@dogpsychology101.com