Why Patience Is the Method

It is tempting to treat patience as a nice extra. With a frightened dog, it is the actual technique. You cannot argue a dog out of fear or rush it. You can only let safe experiences pile up until the brain quietly updates its forecast from "danger" to "fine." That is why going slow is going fast here. Push for a breakthrough and you scare the dog backward. Match the dog's speed and progress sticks. The pace is not the obstacle. The pace is the work.