14/08/2025
This pup has been attending our Yellow Dog Club and has made fantastic progress on dog reactivity and nervousness around strangers. 👏 But her humans booked me in for 1:1s for help with difficulties at home with aggressive behaviours that had escalated and led to low level bites, including guarding her owner's pillow and bed, guarding items like socks and rubbish, and not tolerating handling around her face.
Her owners have done awesome at trusting the process, putting all the protocols and training in place, and I'm pleased to say there is no more guarding of her owner's bed (and everyone is getting better sleep!), protocols are in place to improve guarding of other objects, cooperative care is improving handling, and her owners are getting good at reading her body language and understanding why behaviours are occuring. Plus new protocols are now in place for dealing with charging at and running along the fence and biting it when a neighbour has barking dog visitors, and when having visitors in the home.
Super proud of the progress she's made in just over a month, and her owners' commitment to the training process! 💜Aggressive behaviours don't make a dog a bad dog, there's always a reason behind behaviour, and through management, training and behaviour modification in tailored 1:1 sessions, we can help dogs not need to escalate their behaviours to communicate fear, pain and overarousal.
