You are so right about ‘Energy’ and dogs…
Agree, no need to shout or hit any animal- We had a wonderful dog from RSPCA shelter- my first ever dog, a Lurcher, back in the 1990’s
So sensitive and gentle~She used to browse weed, eating specific parts, never the bud, but the small to medium leaves, but her face would be fragrant, and the leaves ragged, so I knew what she’d been up to!
She’d regurgitate the leaves sometimes, usually in the living room, and I’d occasionally step in the slippery pile of leafage in my bare feet.
Dogs definitely are very good ‘Mind and body’ readers.
It’s a lovely thing to have done, Exercising the SPCA dogs.
Sometimes we walk past the dogs home , and my dog is always unnerved by the sounds of the dogs behind the high walls~ the sad baying, the falling cadence of the woofs~ nearly all Bull breeds.
It’s far worse since the pandemic, tons of dogs were bought on whim in the ‘Lockdowns’ we had here, and now the dogs are being dumped or given up as the owners return to working in an office again~ No commitment to the dogs at all.
Dog in pic above has a fetish for those soaked expanding peat discs once there is a seedling in them~ She will grab them if I leave them within reach~learned the hard way.
I didn’t tell her off, my fault for leaving them in reach.
Ditto when potting on~ I left a plant in her reach and she snipped it through with naughty little puppy teeth. She doesn’t actually eat weed leaves like the old Lurcher did.
But plants are built for this~They can handle it, They are evolved for animal predation.
All a snip does by their teeth is to break the ‘apical dominance’.
Enjoy ‘‘Trim~Jail!’’ 
