Reactivity Webinar Series

Building Resiliency April 19

What is resilience?  Can Resilience be taught?  How can we improve Resilience?

In this session we discuss games and strategies to build your dog’s confidence and resilience so that they feel more comfortable at home and in the world. By building resiliency, we equip our dogs to better handle stressful situations.

Appropriate games and play vary from dog to dog, even within the same household or breed, and we will discuss games to help different types of dogs. 

Managing Arousal April 26

What is “over-arousal”? What does an over-aroused dog look like? And most importantly, how can we help them?  Often an over-aroused dog will refuse food or find food even more arousing, so what do we do when a cookie scatter doesn’t help? 

In this session we learn which cues and reinforcement methods lower or raise arousal and how to choose the best strategy for any situation.  We also discuss ways to set our dogs up for success by lowering their baseline arousal, rehearsing arousal modulation, and by strategically setting up training sessions. 

Rebuilding Recall May 3

Learn about common things people do to poison their dog’s recall and ways to rebuild it.

How can we call our dogs away from other dogs or from squirrels? How does arousal affect recall?  How does your lifestyle and your dog’s vocabulary affect recall?

In this session we will talk about the pieces of recall training that are often left unsaid, how to set us and our dogs up for success, dogs with a high prey drive, and of course my favourite recall games.