DOG REACTIVE LABRADOODLE SESSION 1

We were called to help this lovely girl and she really was lovely, I had a blast working with her.
Sadly this lady has been failed by several trainers when it comes to her dogs reactivity and some of the advice she’s been given has been dam right shocking.
She’s a nervy but excitable girl at the same time and this little cocktail causes her to react to other dogs.
We got her off the harness, a tool advised by another trainer, even though the dog does not like it and we put her on a slip lead. We made sure she was walking nicely, credit to the owner as she had already basically achieved this then we added in some dogs.
This dog was desperately lacking some discipline and the owner despite all the trainers she’s had, not one trainer had shown her how to correct her dog when she loses her mind. This has resulted in the owner falling over, being bitten when her dog redirects, as she’s throwing food on the floor to try and break her dogs focus or trying to drag her dog away.
We used simple leash corrections when the dog lost her mind to bring her back down and we used tonnes of positive reinforcement when she made awesome choices. We worked in changing her emotional response to other dogs, not through trickery, but by clear and concise a communication.
Sadly the most common thing missing from most households I go to is discipline. We are being programmed by organisations such as the KC to believe we don’t need to correct dogs and everything must be fixed with purely positive training. This is spreading and more and more trainers are cropping up Training this way and dogs and owners are being failed everywhere.
In this video we was not harsh with the dog, but we did correct her and it snapped her out of her reactive state and helped her calm down, something the owner had never seen from her dog outside.
As much as we can try to keep dogs under the threshold so they don’t explode, that’s not reality, unfortunately we live in a society where we have a lot of irresponsible dog owners letting off lead dogs run over to on lead dogs, we also need to remember that we share the streets with other dog walkers so if we don’t teach the owners how to handle these situations when the dog goes over the threshold, disaster can happen and it has happened to this lady.
This is not class room training, this is real world dog training where real life situations happen.

[@JohnHarrison350]

Haha, love the comment from the older lady regarding her dog always needing to cross the road at that point!!

[@dogmumma10]

Yes, and her dog was the maniac...

[@Harrow932]

Why is most of your clients not able to hold a camera without their fingers being in the way we miss half the corrections in the video because of it 🤣

[@gaylegeraths234]

Our labradoodle has the identical same issue! Can’t wait to take her out for neighborhood walk. Thanks so much

[@dogmumma10]

This has been super helpful for our beautiful, reactive Bull Arab cross. Reminding him to hold the sit and not running away from the trigger has worked beautifully over the last few days. We will persist with this as it seems to be what works for him! Thank you!

[@southenddogtraining1]

So glad this is help you, thank you.

[@tracy3364]

Most people don't realise they aren't in control of their dogs they think they are...it always seems its the owners with small dogs ...its a great video im gonna do this with my german shephard

[@alphacanine9641]

Small dogs are most spoilt ruins dogs reason for that.

[@alisonsmith5339]

What if a dog is off lead and comes up do you turn and walk away I’ve had this problem so many times owners dogs with no recall I’ve lost count of the times I’ve screamed call your dog back !

[@paulaczarnomska2712]

She’s got the attention game on point, that woman. That’s why it was pretty easy to fix it.

[@pdank426]

6:19 I will be trying this slip lead with my with goldendoodle. My concern is that her neck and head are near the same width. When she bucks up like this as in the video I’m afraid she will be able to wiggle it off her neck. How do you suggest I add a back up leash or another restraint I can also attach to her if this should happen?

[@Stilinski1485]

You can actually buy slip leads with a backup clasp attached! I use one for my GSD. It's just a normal slip lead with a piece wrapped around the rope that has a clasp on the end, I attach it to a martingale that I fit on my dog loosely

[@harryevans6978]

My dog is a young reactive rotti I can only take him out early morning or evening so he doesn't see other dogs. I feel so sorry for him as I can't take him to the beach and have a paddle and a walk in the sand

[@Suriprofz]

she always crosses here wtf, so what go ahead