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You come home and it's happened again. Your dog is sat beside a bed that's ripped apart. Your dog likes to destroy their bed. Short of buying your dog a new bed each and every time or denying your dog a bed forever - what can you do? This is something we've actually...
Knowing where to start is always a pretty rough one when you have a fear reactive dog, but here are 5 ways that you can, very quickly, see a difference in your reactive dog. I've been a reactive dog parent, Indie (my german shepherd) developed reactivity during his...
Respect the Lead is an incredibly important part of dog ownership and walking a dog, professionally or otherwise. A friend of mine, the phenomenal Zoe Blake is a veterinary nurse in the UK! And she launched a phenomenally successful campaign that you may have heard of...
A board and train sounds extremely appealing when you have a reactive dog.You hand over the dog who makes every walk feel like a military operation, a professional works with them intensively, and a few weeks later you get a calmer dog back.I completely understand why...
Reactive and aggressive are not interchangeable words, but they can overlap.A reactive dog can display aggressive behaviour. An aggressive behaviour can also happen outside the neat little box we call reactivity. The useful question is not “which label makes my dog...
Labels are a necessary thing within this world so that we can find resources within them. However, I want to talk to you today about the importance of using the correct label, and why sometimes - if you don't know how to label your dog, why it's best that we don't....
We're launching Fearful Fridays, to give you insight into the lives of reactive dogs, and today's reactive woof sharing their story is Neo (aka @neo_therescuepup!). What Is Fearful Friday? Fearful Friday is the one day of the week that we here at rebarkable are here...
Your reactive dog has just had a huge reaction.Maybe another dog appeared around a corner. Maybe somebody ignored your request for space. Maybe there was a fight. Maybe you simply misjudged the distance.What you do next matters, but not because one reaction has...
Before I deliberately train around a reactive dog’s triggers, I want their day-to-day life set up so they have enough capacity to learn.This is the bit that can feel like “not training.” In practice, it is often what makes the actual training work.If your dog is...