Brains Bones and Behavior – Reactive Dog Group Class
Reactive dogs are not hard to spot. These feisty fidos may lunge at people or dogs that get too close. They may also bark loudly, and/or growl and some may even try to bite anyone foolish enough to get close. In the home, the reactive dog can appear threatening to visitors as he or she jumps, barks and stares.
Reactive dogs tend to stress out their embarrassed owners as these owners try to keep visitors and passersby safe from their intimidating or noisy best friend. This aggression can be fear, frustration or excitability based and this behavior is called reactivity. On the other end of the spectrum is the dog that's too afraid to go anywhere and will hide, tremble, or whine. If your dog can't calm down within a few seconds, he or she is probably a reactive dog.
In the Reactive Dog class you will:
• Acquire the tools you need to understand and handle your dog with confidence.
• Learn what your reactive dog is doing, why he's doing it, and how to change it.
• Teach your dog to relax and trust and overcome fear and anxiety, the root of his or her reactivity
• Develop a better working relationship with your dog.
• Learn how to decrease the stress in your dog and teach confidence and focus. With decreased stress real learning can begin.
• Learn calming and management techniques, coping responses, and emergency escape exercises.
Come work with your dog in a controlled, supportive environment with a small group of dog owners who understand your issues because they share them. In class, the dogs will be separated from each other by the use of visual barriers. Slowly, as you gain skills and your dog gains confidence and starts to shed fears, the individual dogs will begin to work together from a decreasing distance. The counterconditioning and desensitization training and handling techniques are personalized for each dog's emotional readiness and needs.
There is no longer a need to feel lost or confused when your dog becomes reactive. This very special class will help you change or manage your dog that overreacts in new situations or with new people or other dogs.
Please be aware that the group behavior class is a highly structured and controlled class that will work strictly on your dog's reaction to other dogs. Reactive Dog Group Class is 8 weeks long for $400.00. Discounts are available to those who have adopted from a rescue, the local pound/shelter, Human Society or SPCA (with paperwork) in the prior month, seniors, those with a disability or active military.
Requirements
Owners must be able to hold on to their dog or come up with a way to anchor the dog for security and safety purposes.
Dogs must be licensed and have proof of DHLP combination, Rabies & Bordatella vaccines.
If you have a muzzle for your dog, please bring it as not all the dogs in this class are reactive/agressive, some are just overly excitable.
