![]() You will practice and be coached on strategies using reward-based training, the use of behavior markers, dog body language, relaxation techniques and appropriate use of space. Reactive Rover trains handlers how to manage and retrain appropriate behavior for dogs that lunge, bark, growl, are reactive, aggressive, to other dogs or people. You will learn to lower stress (in both you and your dog), build calmness and attention, train alternate behaviors to reactivity and/or over arousal, reinforce the absence of reactivity, and most importantly build your dog’s confidence and trust in you providing a safe emotional state which will facilitate behavior change. In this class we will show you how to change your dog’s reactive behavior. We focus on helping the dog learn coping skills, building confidence and giving the owner tools to read their dog to help them through scary things. Our class will give you lots of opportunity to practice with your dog and see improvement – in a low-stress, VERY well managed semi- controlled environment. The program is designed to teach you how to modify and improve this behavior so that walking is not so stressful for EITHER of you. If you are constantly trying to avoid all the dogs behind fences, or turn corners and dip into driveways when you see another dog coming? If you dread when people start approaching with their dog, exclaiming “Mine is really friendly!”? You’re SO not alone! ![]() If you have stopped walking your dog because it’s miserable for you and your dog.
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