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?

I’m working with Amy currently with my anxious, reactive 11 month old labradoodle, Gunner. She has given us some great homework tasks and recommended lifestyle changes for Gunner and it has made a world of difference for him and for his confidence. I highly recommend Everything Dog, they are amazing trainers who care so deeply about the well-being of the dogs they train! Couldn’t be happier with our choice to train with them.

Mallory R. and Gunner

Amy and Denise have been amazing with my Cooper for months and we are So impressed about how far he has come with his reactivity and overall anxiety ! Amy taught us about how to manage his anxiety and his reactiveness was and though we still have lots to work on he has come SO far! We have tried several trainers over his 2 3/4 yrs with us to no avail not for lack of trying on my part! I am blessed we found Everything Dog and recommend it everyone!!! changing his environment made him a new handsome Boy and no longer is walking him as much of a chore thankfully! We hope all these improvements will help us together to take him on vacation which was not an option even a year ago!

Stephanie B. and Cooper

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.