About
About The Hachi Way
A method, a founder, and a mission to change how people live with dogs.
The Hachi Way is a relationship-first approach to living with dogs, built by Diona Chu across veterinary science, early childhood education, and over fifteen years with zoos, wildlife, assistance dogs and households.
All of it rests on one idea: a dog whose needs are met and whose body language is understood behaves well without constant instruction. Here is where that came from, where it is going, and how it works.
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The founder
Why Diona Chu became a trainer, and the Akita the method is named for.
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To do for dog ownership what attachment theory did for parenting.
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The waterline, the four modes, and reading the dog before commanding it.
Read more →Stories
Case studies and field notes from the practice.
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