Calm Your Reactive Or Anxious Dog And Reduce Your Stress About Lunging, Barking, Growling

It can be stressful when your dog is reactive. If your dog is lunging, barking, or growling, you'll get a lot of unsolicited advice. It can also feel like you are alone! You need to know it's not your fault. To help, I've got my top tips for managing reactivity in dogs with two popular Shaped by Dog podcast videos combined into one.

Be sure to check out our playlist for reactivity and aggression as it covers the critical things everyone needs to know:
   • Reactive or Aggressive Dogs: Key Insi...  

00:00 Part 1 - Creating Confidence for Anxious, Stressed or Reactive Dogs
01:02 Anxiety when it's your dog reacting
02:50 It's not your fault
03:48 What to do for you
06:33 See the dog you love everywhere
07:49 Overwhelm prevention
09:19 Breaking training down
10:28 Resilience for dogs
11:41 Dog emotions
12:51 Learning from your dog
15:24 Part 2 - Creating Confidence for Anxious, Stressed or Reactive Dogs
15:26 Googling reactivity
16:27 Top 10 Suggestions
16:54 01 - Focus on reinforcement
18:45 02 - Believe your dog
18:59 Rocks, Fly Swatters and See-Saws
20:37 Transfer of value to you
21:41 03 - Know your dog's triggers
21:48 Perception triggers for generalization and desensitization
22:16 Fear triggers and stress
23:30 Why triggers don't stay static
25:03 04 - Using zones for confidence
27:13 05 - Anchor dogs
27:53 06 - What is Matching Law?
29:27 07 - Create active (good) triggers
31:25 08 - Positive conditioning for dogs to love training tools
33:02 09 - Benefits of online training for confidence
34:09 10 - Consulting a Veterinary Behaviorist
35:20 Want to know more on any point? Let us know!

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Susan Garrett’s interest in animal behaviour started at the University of Guelph where she earned a Bachelor of Science majoring in Animal Science. Since then she has developed into a preeminent dog trainer and canine sports instructor and competitor. Susan is one of the most successful agility competitors of the last three decades. She has won multiple Gold Medals at National or World Championship events with every dog she has ever owned over the past 30 years.

A natural teacher and an entertaining speaker, Susan is worlmond renowned as a leading educator of dog trainers. Her understanding of how to apply science-based learning principles to both competitive and family pet dog training has been pivotal in changing how dogs are trained.

Susan is now helping many thousands of dog owners in 132 countries have the best relationship possible with their dogs. The real joy for her comes from bringing confidence to dogs and their owner through playful interactions and relationship building games that are grounded firmly in the science of how animals learn.
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