Help for Your Reactive Dog
Living with a reactive dog is embarrassing, frustrating and can be scary when your dog’s behavior feels out of out of control and unpredictable. Some dogs can just struggle so much with reactive behavior towards other dogs, people, bikes and more. It’s stressful on you and your family and it’s stressful for your dog too.
You are in the right place if:
- You want to go out and enjoy a walk but instead you feel anxious about what your dog might freak out about
- You feel embarrassed and frustrated by your dogs barking, lunging and carrying on
- Family and friends are full of advice on how to fix or correct your dog’s behavior, but some of it just doesn’t feel right and a lot of it doesn’t work
- You’ve spent valuable money and time on other training with disappointing results
- You just want to relax with your dog and feel confident about her behavior
When you have a reactive dog, it can be so challenging to find fun things to do together when you are always trying to manage your dog’s behavior. How do you predict what she is going to react to and what do you do about it?




In order to help your dog and make long-term behavior change we:
- Take a deep dive into your dog’s history and personality so you can understand WHY your dog is behaving this way. When you understand the WHY, you are in a much better position to know HOW to help your dog keep calm.
- Look at all the places your dog is reacting and behaving in an emotionally unregulated way so we can address all areas of problem behavior
- Teach the human end of the leash so you can avoid the big mistakes the owners of reactive dogs often make
- Teach you and your dog the strategies and skills you need to counter the reactive behavior so you can take a walk or have people over without feeling anxious
- Help you and your dog reclaim your happy, joyful life together where there is more fun and less stress for both of you.
The first thing to understand about reactive dog behavior is that it is an issue of EMOTION. After helping hundreds of clients and their dogs with reactivity, we developed a training program that focuses on addressing the emotion first. Once your dog understands how to regulate her emotions in the presence of triggers, then we work on the strategies and behaviors you and your dog will need to stay cool, calm and collected anywhere and everywhere.
We know how stressful reactivity can be and we want to help both you and your dog feel more confident, calm and in control. We’ve transformed the behavior of our own reactive dog, helped hundreds of reactive dog clients and we are ready to help you too!
Training Solutions for Both Ends of the Leash
Ask Me Anything
Schedule your 50 minute virtual Ask Me Anything for quick, laser focus on one issue. Quick questions on house training, why your dog won’t come inside (if you have a fenced yard) puppy issues and jumping up are examples of appropriate topics. Not suitable for aggression, biting or other serious issues.
Behavior Consults
Take a deep dive into your dog’s behavior. We look at the Whole Dog. We ask Why is this behavior happening, then move into the How, how do we stop it, how do we change it, etc.
Allow 1.5 – 2 hours for this deep dive.
On-Demand Courses
On demand courses are available online and at your convenience. They are an effective and fun way for you to learn and improve your dog’s behavior from the convenience of home. Click below to check out our ever-expanding library of courses.