Description:
This class is designed for dogs who bark, lunge, or overreact to other dogs, people, or environmental triggers. Whether their reactivity stems from fear, frustration, or overexcitement, this class gives you the tools to rebuild trust, shift your dog’s mindset, and create calm, structured patterns in high-pressure situations.

We focus on building handler leadership, improving timing, and creating accountability through balanced training methods. Dogs work at distances appropriate to their individual thresholds and progress at their own pace with professional guidance.

This is a safe and structured space to work through reactivity with the support of a trainer who understands what you’re facing — and who’s there to help you get real results.
 

Skills Taught:

• Importance of leadership

• Focus with distractions

• Impulse control

• Reward and correction systems

• Heeling and leash handling

• Rebuilding handler trust
   

Requirements:

• Dogs must be muzzled if there is a history of biting, nipping, lunging, or growling toward humans
  (Our trainers will need to handle your dog at times during class, so safety is essential)

• Prong collars, if used, must be backed up with a carabiner clipped to a flat collar

• No harnesses allowed - unless as a backer to regular collar

• Dogs must wear either a slip lead, properly fitted martingale collar, or prong collar — this is to ensure there is no risk of backing out and escaping during training
   

Note: This is the class we recommend for dogs who struggle on leash around other dogs or people. If you’re unsure if this is the right fit, we’re happy to chat before enrolling.