Does your pet trust you? I mean REALLY trust you...

Trust is a funny thing. It's the foundation to every good relationship, whether with our pets, or with our friends, our family, our co-workers...

It's like the bank account of life. It works on deposits and withdrawals. What goes in can be taken out. Our job as our pet's caretakers, guardians, parents is to be sure that our pets are feeling full of deposits, rich in their trust of us.

I don't know if you've ever heard of Brené Brown but she has a famous talk and framework for trust, called the Anatomy of Trust. Here's a link, in case you haven't heard of it. In my humble opinion, it's an important understanding for all humans for grasp: Anatomy Of Trust

She also talks about the concept of the Marble Jar. A marble goes in when trust is built. A marble comes out when an aspect of trust is removed.
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She talks about 7 key aspects to trust, several of which I believe also directly apply to our pets. 
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