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OhMyDog.Rocks

To help people raise calm, healthy dogs, by first becoming calm, aware humans.

That is the whole mission, and it is easy to agree with, which is what makes it nearly useless on its own. So below it are six things we hold to be true, each one paired with what holding it costs us. A belief that costs nothing is a slogan.

Painted likeness of Sunny Luthra

Sunny Luthra

Dog behaviourist · Pune

Credentials

What we hold, and what it costs

  1. 01
    Painted plate: a person sitting on the floor against a sofa, hands loose and still, with a dog settled and asleep against their leg
    Plate I, the human doing nothing, on purpose · Illustration

    The parent is the intervention.

    Nearly everything I am asked to fix in a dog turns out to be a question about the human holding the other end of the lead. So that is where the work starts. Your breathing, your routine, and what you do in the three seconds after something goes wrong. It is slower than a technique, and it is the part that lasts.

    What we refuse

    Fixing the dog and returning it to an unchanged house.

    A dog handed back “trained” to the same home is a dog waiting to relapse. It also means I cannot sell you a result that arrives without you.

  2. 02
    Painted plate: a dog on a walk with ears back, weight shifted low and head turned away, the lead hanging completely slack while the person stands still and watches
    Plate II, a dog mid-sentence, lead slack · Illustration

    Read the dog before you correct it.

    Behaviour is communication before it is a problem. A dog that lunges, eats off the ground, or cannot settle is being specific about something. The job is to teach you to read it, not to teach the dog to stop saying it.

    What we refuse

    Obedience as the goal.

    Sit, stay and heel are conveniences for us. A dog that complies and is still frightened has learned nothing that helps it, and I will not present that as success.

  3. 03
    Painted plate: a steel bowl of fresh food, meat, vegetables and broth, on a kitchen floor in morning light, with a small rough-coated dog waiting beside it rather than lunging
    Plate III, the bowl, before the shelf · Illustration

    Health is built, not bought.

    Most of what fills a vet’s waiting room arrives slowly, and slow things can be seen coming. Food, gut, weight, sleep and routine do more for a dog’s life than anything on a shelf, including the things on mine.

    What we refuse

    Fear as a sales technique.

    “Buy this or your dog will suffer” is the oldest line in this industry. It does not appear here, on any product page, at any point in the year.

  4. 04
    Painted specimen plate: the same lean pariah-type dog studied four times across bare paper, standing alert, sitting turned away, lying with head raised, and walking
    Plate IV, one dog, four postures, watched · Illustration

    Instinct first, science to verify.

    Every claim on this site begins as something watched, dogs raising each other with no commands, no leads and no treats, and is then checked against published research before it reaches a page. Where the observation and the literature disagree, the page says so rather than choosing the tidier answer.

    What we refuse

    Picking one half and calling it the whole animal.

    Tradition on its own repeats itself. The clinic on its own misses the dog in the room. Holding both is slower to write and harder to summarise.

  5. 05
    Painted plate: an open field notebook covered in handwritten observations and pencil studies of a dog’s posture, printed papers laid beside it, and a dog watching from the table edge
    Plate V, the notes, and what they were checked against · Illustration

    Real proof, or no proof.

    Names, quotes, credentials and citations here are real and traceable to a source. Where a figure has not been settled internally, it does not appear at all, which is why this page hands you no total, no “thousands helped”, and no badge.

    What we refuse

    Round numbers that sound like evidence.

    Invented counts, borrowed logos, and testimonials nobody said. The cost is that this page reads smaller than its competitors’, and that is the correct trade.

  6. 06
    Painted plate: a person sitting up in low lamplight late at night reading from a phone with a worried expression, a dog asleep and curled on the bed beside them
    Plate VI, eleven at night, on a phone · Illustration

    The library stays free.

    Most people arrive here at night, on a phone, because something is wrong and it will not wait until morning. Breeds, diseases, behaviour and research are readable right then, no account, no email, no half an answer. Everything sold here sits on top of that library and has to earn its place.

    What we refuse

    Gating the answer someone came for.

    No interstitials, no locked second half, no “enter your email to keep reading”. It costs us the list, every night, on the pages most worth reading.

What is running today, and what is not.

The practice was formed in India, sessions with dog parents from 2016, then a move in 2019 to the hills outside Pune to watch free-roaming dogs raise each other with no commands, no leads and no treats. That is not a chapter that closed: I still live there, and I am still watching them, seven years on. The walks and meet-ups happen there too.

The reading, the tools and the guides are written for a dog parent anywhere, and most of the people who use them will never come to Pune. Both of those are true at once, and neither one gets scrubbed out to make the other sound bigger.

Free to read, no account
Breeds, diseases, behaviour, probiotics and the research library.
Free tools
Gut-age check, meal plan, food calculator, and the quizzes.
Paid, and optional
ProBelly, guides, courses, professional certification, and one-to-one behaviour consultations.
Not open yet
TheDogVillage and the in-person events built around it. When they open, this line changes.

That’s the mission. The rest is the library.

202 entries, counted from the library itself rather than written down, so the number is never out of date. All of it free to read, no account, no email.