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: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy0Tbd6ZybIXgJk3mtpBLLk7 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! P.S. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel so you get notifications of new videos! - - - - - - - Dogs That is brought to you by Susan Garrett and the Say Yes Dog Training Team. 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. - - - - - - - Our Website: https://dogsthat.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SusanGarrettDogAgility/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SusanGarrettDogsThat/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dogsthat LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dogsthat Pinterest: https://pinterest.ca/dogsthatcom/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/susangarrett There’s always something new happening at Dogs That, so if you’d like to be the first to know, visit our website, register to receive updates, and we'll keep you in the loop. https://dogsthat.com