Our Reactive Rover class is intended to help owners with reactive dogs (dogs that react negatively to other dogs and/or people) exhibiting behaviors such as growling, barking, lunging, shaking, or shutting down in the presence of such stimuli) Learn better management and handling skills based on “BAT Behavior Adjustment Training for Reactivity”, by Grisha Stewart.

We’ve created a program to help folks with this very common issue. 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. Then, the program will give you lots of opportunity to practice with your dog and see improvement – in a low-stress, VERY well managed, “I-had-no-idea-this-could-be-so-relaxing-and-stress FREE.

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. In this class we will show you how to change your dog’s reactive behavior. 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.