hello that lovers in this episode I'm going to talk about and explain why some
dogs are reacting to certain things and also share three solutions which are
going to help you to manage your dog's reactivity stay tuned
hello lovers if your dog is reactive to other dogs other people any object on
any situation or whatever reason your dog is reactive is either reactive in a
way of aggressive or fearful and either attack or they lunge or run away or
anything like that this is the video for you hi my name is Saro I'm a dog
trainer and I coach dog owners if it's your first time here make sure to
subscribe to my channel so you won't miss quality content like this in future
so let's get started so why do dogs get reactive believe it or not the reason
your dog is reactive to whatever it comes across whatever reason it is it's
not because they have behavioral issues it's because you are disconnected from
your dog and your dog is disconnected from you so let me explain what I mean
by that most dogs in general they take cues from you from us humans that's the
unfortunate truth so when a dog is reacting it's a clear signal that that
dog is disconnected from its human and it's making decision on its own and it's
not focused on you this may come as a shock to you but dogs love to be told
what to do and if you don't tell them what to do unfortunately they have to
make decisions if you don't tell your dog what to do and how to behave and how
to do things in this human society they will have to make decisions on their own
and most of the time when dogs make decisions on their own some of those
decisions are wrong it's not that they're behaving badly it's just that
that's the choice they make if they were among their own but because they're
making those choices in human Society in human world it becomes a bad
behavior we call it bad behavior and we name it as reactive dog so the fact is
if you allow your dog to make decisions among all these choices that they have
sometimes they make the wrong choices and that's because they are not getting
cues from you you have to be able to teach your dog and keep cues to your dog
how to behave and what to do and what not to do you have to understand that
your dog is a kind of a stranger in the strange land
they don't know everything they don't understand everything automatically they
are bred to live with humans but they are not designed to completely
understand all aspects of living in human society so automatically they lack
that knowledge to know what to do in human society and that lack of knowledge
causes them to be stressed and stress causes them to make mistakes and when
they make mistakes we call them they are behaving badly or they are reactive so
basically lack of knowledge causes stress and stress causes the dog to
behave so let me give you an example let's pretend you're a teenager and you
just moved to a new school and everything is new you won't know what to do where
to go how to deal with things automatically if there is nobody to
guide you and to help you you will get stressed you will get frustrated and you
may also get in fight that's what exactly happens to a dog they are in new
environment there are new situations and they are not familiar with what they're
supposed to do so they need you to guide them to the right direction so how do
you fix this behavior I will give you a general form of dealing with this
behavior there are so many moving parts in this issue the reactiveness of a dog
that is hard to pinpoint exactly what you are supposed to do with a certain dog
a certain situation and don't believe other dog trainers or professionals or
anybody else telling you that you need to use this tool this product this shock
color these treats that that food you need to use force or domination in order
to help your dog to deal with this issue you can't solve this problem from outside
and I'll explain what I mean as I said you are disconnected from your dog and
your dog is disconnected from you so therefore your dog is not sure what to
do and that can't be solved with using tools force or domination so there are a
few things that you need to do few things that you need to change few
things that you need to stop doing few things that you need to start doing but
I'll also share three main solutions that will help you to solve this problem
be comfortable telling your dog what to do start guiding your dog this means
complete control of your dogs wants and needs guiding your dog is a must you as a
dog owner if your responsibility to start taking care of that part of your
dog and start guiding your dog without feeling bad or feeling that you're
taking away your dog's freedom or you're not giving enough choices to your dog
don't feel bad your dog is not going to hate you I guarantee you start spending
some quality time with your dog to bond with your dog this may be a week a month
a year you need to be really one with your dog and no sharing affection with
your dog or spoiling your dog is not the way to go that doesn't make you to
connect to your dog you need to actually invest time and effort so I'll link the
video that I have made about how to bond with your dog in this video and somewhere
here you need to start having complete control of your dog
Obedience training and teaching your dog the command it's a good start if you
continue on working on your dog on his command soon you're going to have a dog
who's more predictable you need to get a hundred percent reliability for instance
if you're calling your dog to come to you you need to get a hundred percent
reliability and if your dog comes to you as soon as you give that command to your
dog that means you are connected to your dog there's no easy way of solving this
problems and if you follow these three steps you will have an easier time to
manage your dogs reactivity I just want to let you know that I also offer long
distance consultation and dog training and I'll have the links and all the
information on the description below if you like this video please give it a
thumbs up share and comment when or why your dog gets reactive how have you been
managing your dog's reactivity make sure to subscribe to my channel and if you
have questions about dogs anything to do with dogs make sure to post those
questions in the comment area and I will answer them or I will also make videos
about them until next time have fun with your dog