01/12/2023
This upcoming webinar is a great opportunity to learn more about reactivity in your herding dog. Hosted by Cat Harbord - creator of the Thrive Learning System and Director of ImPAWSible Possible and Karen Baxter - co-founder of Unified K9 Behaviour Centre. The webinar is only $20 if you register before Saturday and will be recorded if you can’t attend live. Also available to purchase after the live event for $29!
AROUSAL, REACTIVITY AND HERDING DOGS
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Part of growing in our relationships with our dogs involves continually re-examining some of the personal and cultural principles, assumptions and values that we hold with respect to dogs and seeing if these are congruent or incongruent with what is true. Sometimes the line between true and almost true can be very fine so you need to really look for the nuance and subtleties that lie in between the often polarizing views.
A common conception in our dog culture is that dogs need to just be calm and keep their arousal and feelings under control at all times. This even more pervasive when it comes to conversations about reactivity (for the purpose of this conversation we are focusing on herding breeds but this has broader applications to all dogs).
Is this, true though? Does this actually cultivate a dog that is robust and resilient, able to adapt to whatever life throws at them, and above all, create a flourishing relationship, or does it essentially sweep the problems under the rug, reducing the dog's capacity for joy, healthy behavioural responses, and experiencing life to the fullest?
This is one of the nuances that Unified K9 Behaviour Centre and I will be discussing in our upcoming The Canine Complexity Series: Reactivity in Herding Dogs Webinar on Saturday, January 14 at 11 a.m. EST (Eastern Standard Time)
If you haven't signed up yet, you only have two days to do so at our early bird rate of $20CDN for the webinar (which will be recorded for those who register).
