📌How Pro Trainers Stop Reactivity & Aggression in 2 Steps

Reactivity and aggression get lumped together a lot by everyday dog guardians, because both can involve some similar behaviors like barking and lunging on leash…

Whether you’re dealing with a true “aggressive” outburst, or barking and lunging due to “reactivity”, your goal is the same:

***Keep those behaviors from emerging in the first place*** while you desensitize and counter condition your dog, at a pace that is appropriate to their individual situation.

It is never appropriate or productive to put dogs into situations where they’re so overwhelmed that they start to react by barking, lunging, shutting down and being unable to take treats they would usually love, etc.

So, what is the RIGHT thing to do?

Here’s how dog trainers proactively change your dog’s emotional response to their triggers, and some examples of how I use this regularly when I’m working with dogs.

What are some of your dog’s triggers? 🐿️🐕

How do they react around them right now?