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You know the route where you are least likely to meet anyone. You walk at hours when nobody else is out. You have gotten good at reading the middle distance for a dog rounding a corner, and at the small sick feeling when one does.
When it happens your dog is gone — lunging, screaming, at the end of the leash — and you are hauling eighty pounds of animal past somebody who is staring at you. Then you go home and feel like you failed a creature that depends on you.
Almost nobody says this part out loud: you have wondered, more than once, whether you are the right person for this dog. You are not a bad owner for thinking it. Owners of reactive dogs report exactly that, and it is the reason most of them stop walking their dog at all.
This is what we see when a dog arrives at our facility after an owner has already had a go at it.
Reactivity is not usually disobedience — it is fear, frustration or over-arousal. Waiting it out lets the dog keep rehearsing the behaviour, and rehearsal is practice. The dog gets better at reacting.
Food changes how a dog feels about something at a distance it can cope with. It does nothing at four feet with a dog already over threshold. Most owners are handed the first half of the method and left to improvise the half that happens on a real street.
The single most common thing we fix on day one is the handler, not the dog. Leash tension, where you stand, when you turn, what you do a full ten seconds before the other dog appears. That is trainable, and it is most of the outcome.
Included with the Buck U subscription — $29.99/month, and with any Buck's training subscription.
Everything in the library is included. We don't sell courses individually.
See what's includedIf your dog has a serious bite history, or you feel unsafe handling them, do not start with a video course. Get hands on the problem — ours or somebody else’s.
If you're within driving distance of one of our locations, tell us what's going on. We'll tell you honestly whether this is something you can work through at home or whether your dog belongs in a board & train.
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