Susan Bennett Facebook ad: “Read this if you own a Dachshund”

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I've been breeding Dachshunds for 22 years and I can tell you exactly what’s going to happen to your dog in the next 6 months if nobody tells you what I'm about to. I follow up with every owner after they take a pup home. Six weeks. Twelve weeks. Six months. I have made these calls for 22 years and I know before I dial almost exactly what I'm going to hear. At six weeks: everything is perfect. She's brilliant. We are absolutely obsessed. I think we got the best one. I smile. I write my notes. I make a note in my calendar for twelve weeks. At twelve weeks: something has changed. She's ignoring us. Three accidents this week. She barked at the neighbor for fifteen minutes and nothing I tried made it stop. Is this normal? I tell them yes. I explain what's happening. I'm not sure they fully hear me. I make a note in my calendar for six months. At six months: the class didn't work. She was great in the hall and came home and forgot everything. The trainer said to be more consistent. We've been consistent for three months and she's worse. She goes on the rug every time it rains. The howling has gotten us 2 noise complaints. My husband is at his limit. We've spent $800 and nothing has changed. Can we bring her back? 9 out of 10 times. That's how the six-month calls go. And I've been taking those calls for 22 years. It's never the dog's fault. And honestly it's not the owner's fault either. My name is Susan Bennett. I breed miniature smooth-haired Dachshunds outside Cookeville, Tennessee. I have been doing this since 2002. I know every dog I have ever placed. I know their parents. I know their grandparents. I know what they are capable of when they are understood. I want to tell you about two puppies from the same litter. Spring of 2021. Brother and sister. Same mother, same father, same eight weeks in my home. Walter went to a family in Murfreesboro. Lisa, her husband, two young kids. Enthusiastic. Prepared. Loved him from day one. Ruby went to Diane in Nashville. 41, worked in marketing, lived alone. She had waited two years for a Dachshund and done her research. 6-week calls: both perfect. 12-week calls: Walter ignoring commands, barking at the mail carrier, signed up for PetSmart. Ruby having accidents in the rain, ordered calming chews from a Facebook recommendation. I told both of them the same things. 6-month call with Lisa. She sounded exhausted. 6 weeks of group obedience at PetSmart. $119. Walter was great in class. Came home and stopped responding outside the kitchen. Instructor said to be more consistent. Private trainer named Brett. $95 a session, six sessions, $570. Said Walter needed firmer handling and more exercise. They added a second walk. Walter pulled harder on both. Anti-bark spray collar. Walter figured out the threshold in four days. The quiet constant bark was worse than the loud one. Refused to potty in the rain all the time. Hallway runner was replaced twice. She'd given up and put down a washable mat. Her husband had started calling it "Walter's house" in a sarcastic tone. "I love him," she said. "But we've spent over $900 and nothing has worked. Is there something wrong with him? Can we bring him back?" There was nothing wrong with him. I told her what I always tell them. Walter is a hunting dog with working instincts in his bloodline for hundreds of years. Every method you've tried was designed for a dog that wants to please you. Walter was bred to please himself. Until you work with that instead of against it, nothing will stick. She was quiet. "Why didn't anyone tell me this before I spent $900?" I didn't have a good answer. I called Diane about Ruby the same week. She picked up on the first ring. She sounded different. "Ruby is wonderful. She comes when I call her. She's not going on the rug anymore even on rainy days. She settles when I leave. My neighbor stopped by last week to say how quiet things had been." I stopped writing. "What did you do?" "I found a guide. About six weeks ago. I found it in a Dachshund forum and ordered it that night." "What guide?" She told me. I looked it up that evening. I sat at my kitchen table reading it and felt something I do not often feel after 22 years of breeding. Someone had said everything I had been trying to tell owners for two decades. More clearly and more completely than I ever managed to say it myself. Because here is the truth I have been trying to communicate since 2002. A Dachshund is not just a small dog. A Dachshund is a working hound bred over hundreds of years for one of the most independent jobs in the history of working dogs. They went underground alone, with no handler or guidance. Every decision was made independently. The ones bred forward were the ones that trusted their own judgment completely, didn't back down and didn’t give up. That is the dog you have. Not a stubborn dog. Not a difficult dog. A dog running a brain built for complete independence, being trained with methods designed for dogs that want your approval. Nobody is telling owners this. Not the PetSmart class. Not the trainer charging $95 a session. Not the vet who says Dachshunds are notoriously stubborn and sends them home with medication options. And so the pattern repeats. 6 weeks: perfect. 12 weeks: cracks. 6 months: crisis. The variable is never the dog. It is always whether the owner understood what they actually had. The guide explains the self-interest calculation that drives every Dachshund decision. This brain asks one question about every request: what does this get me and is it worth it? Generic training answers that question with your disapproval. Your turned back. Your firmer voice. A Dachshund brain doesn't experience your disapproval the way a people-pleasing breed does. It experiences it as a blocked path to route around. The guide explains how to change the calculation instead of fighting the result of it. The Quiet Command in the guide installs an off-switch on the bark. Not silencing it. Giving the alert drive a job that ends. The brain that was built to signal its location underground learns that sounding the alarm and standing down is the complete job. Done. The Weather-Proof Toilet Routine changes what going outside means to the brain until the rug stops being the more attractive option regardless of the weather. The Confidence Method for separation anxiety teaches the brain that your absence always ends the same predictable way. A brain that can predict an outcome stops treating it as a threat. The howling stops not because the dog has been medicated or distracted. Because the panic was given evidence it was unnecessary. The recall and cooperation system makes checking in with you the highest-value option available according to the dog's own calculation. Not through bribery. Through an approach that makes cooperation pay more than the alternative. And so much more. I sent the guide to Lisa the week after I found it and told her to get it. She called me three weeks later. Walter had not gone on the rug in two weeks. The mail carrier bark was lasting under two minutes. He had checked in with her twice on the walk that morning. Not because she called him. Because he chose to. "He checked in with me. He just looked up and came back and kept walking. He's never done that before." He just needed someone to give his brain the right instructions. I now include the Complete Dachshund Guide with every puppy I place. Because after 22 years and over 400 placements I know what the 6-month crisis call sounds like and I know most of it is preventable if the owner understands what they have before they start trying to fix it. If you own a Dachshund and you're struggling more than you'd like to admit. Your dog is not broken. Your dog is not difficult. Your dog is not the problem. And you're not a bad owner. Your dog has a brain built for complete independence in a living room, being trained with methods designed for dogs that are companion breeds. Nothing is wrong with either of you. You were just never given the right operating manual. I found it two years ago. I have given it to every family that has walked out of my property with one of my puppies since. I am writing this so that every family who did not buy from me can find it too. The Complete Dachshund Guide is only $37. It includes the full cooperation and recall system, the Quiet Command, the Weather-Proof Toilet Routine, the Confidence Method for separation anxiety, the leash protocol, the Behavior Reset, and the IVDD Prevention Blueprint. Plus free monthly updates for life. It comes with instant access after you get it so you can start training tonight, and they give you a 90-day money-back guarantee. So if you follow the simple steps and don’t see an improvement, you pay nothing. I have been making six-month calls for 22 years. The families who are thriving understood what they had. The families in crisis were never told. You are reading this. Now you know. pawpowa.com/pages/dachshund-complete-guide Susan Bennett Cookeville, Tennessee Miniature Dachshund Breeder, 22 years P.S. Lisa spent over $900 on methods designed for a brain Walter doesn't have. Six months in she was ready to give him back. Three weeks after I sent her the guide he was checking in voluntarily on walks, the bark lasted under two minutes, and he hadn't gone on the rug in two weeks. Same dog. Right instructions. Don't spend six months finding out the hard way what costs $37 to know from the beginning. pawpowa.com/pages/dachshund-complete-guide P.P.S. If your Dachshund is past the puppy stage, it is not too late. I have seen this breed transform at 2, 4, and 7 years old. The independent brain doesn't stop being teachable. It stops being as easy to teach. That is the only difference. Start today. pawpowa.com/pages/dachshund-complete-guide

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