Evidence-based canine behavior education for owner trainers.
There's a list of places you don't take her anymore.
The farmers market. Your sister's house. The trail with the good parking. You never decided to stop going. You just stopped.
What is actually going on
Your dog isn't broken. She's blocked.
Your dog has been telling you she's uncomfortable for a long time. A head turn. A slow blink. Sniffing the ground out of nowhere halfway down the street. Your dog has a language, and their language has no words to it.
By the time it gets loud, she's already asked you quietly two or three times and got nothing back. So she stopped asking quietly.
Nobody taught you the quiet part. That is the whole of what has gone wrong here, and it's fixable.
Behavior is communication, not stubbornness.
Who is teaching you
Three things worth knowing before you start.
- I'm a certified canine behavior consultant and an AKC approved CGC Evaluator.
- Before dogs I worked in the medical field, and I owner trained my own service dog, which is a harder qualification than it sounds.
- I teach evidence based methods and nothing else. No corrections, no treats, & no force.
Where it goes from there
Read. Respond. Change.
Three parts, done in order. By the end of each one there is something new she can do, and you will see it happen in your home and on a decompression walk.
Read
Observe what what yor dog is actually communicating, and leave with a walking structure that actually works for the life of your dog.
Respond
Stop repeating yourself. Know what to do when a dog appears.
Change
Go back to the places you stopped going. Resolve over-excitement and behavior problems, get control of your life back.
One walk. Tonight.
Whatever you decide about the rest of it, think about what the problem has cost you already, and you can do this before bed.
Start the change on tonight's walk Free. No previous training experience necessary.