What does a stress response feel like for a dog?
Caregivers often struggle to understand their reactive dogs. From a human perspective, reactivity appears unpredictable and disproportionate to the circumstances.
Yet, from the dog's perspective, reactive episodes drain emotional energy and block access to learning and thinking. They are the result of a sequence of automatic stress responses in the dog's physiology.
What we see on the surfac...
The Problem with Reactivity Training Classes
The problem is that reactivity and training don't belong in the same sentence.
Dog training is promoted as the way to "fix" broken dogs and to keep them under control. When dogs do things people don't like, the assumption is that the dog "needs more training", a firmer hand, stronger discipline...as long as it's called "positive reinforcement," it's okay.
Reactivity, on the other hand, is ...
Inside Sensitive Dogs
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