The reactive class is designed to assist you in the everyday outside situation.  I know myself only to well having experienced my girl being attacked and diving over her to protect her.  I know how it feels as the human both emotionally and the concern for our dogs.  This course is to help heal both the human and the dog and build that bond back which so often gets destroyed in these situations. I will be looking for whether your dog is fear based or just naughty and impulse driven.

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The Reactivity Class is designed for any dog that acts in a way toward another dog that is inconsistent with expected norms. This includes at one end of the scale Labradors who just want to "Hug" everyone in the park which gets them into fights or pulls their humans over trying to love other humans - all the way up to the other end of the scale with dogs that have been attacked and are fear aggressive or have progressed through to outright attacking other dogs on the walk. We show you how to initially get control both with your leadership in the home and outside then work with you to change the behaviour of your dog so that it makes a better decision. This creates confidence in you and in your dog to be able to be out in public.  This is not suitable for aggression toward humans that behaviour requires our aggression Pack. There is still a lot of work that is required by the human to teach your dog to make a better decision we help you to do that.  There are additional videos to assist in the home during the 8 weeks.

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Class Content

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Week 1

* We start to teach the psychology of what is going thru your dogs mind.

* We teach the dog how to start to self regulate to a calming state of mind

* We start to teach the dog to trust the parents in more stressful situations

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Week 2

* We teach a walking focus exercise so that the dog learns to follow the leg of the human

* We start the process of teaching the dog to look at the object of fear/hate/obsession and the to disengage from it voluntarily

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Week 3

^ We continue to teach disengagement but increase the related stress under control 

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Week 4

* We teach the dog how to focus on their human without being told to

* Real world practice of previous weeks

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Week 5

* We begin teaching walking disengagement toward a target

* Building resilience around sounds using the above techniques

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Week 6

* A European military exercise to counter condition  sound related issues that affect the dogs focus 

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Week 7

* We teach the dog to learn to consistently check in to the human in moments of stress in the same way we teach our mental health assistant dogs

* We start teaching how to build space resilience with the human

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Week 8

* Defensive Walking in public

* Putting it altogether 

* Graduation