27/05/2026
If your dog struggles to listen when they’re excited, this is one skill that could fix A LOT of your issues.
Being able to tell your dog to switch off and calm down on cue is a massively powerful skill that a lot of dogs don’t have.
It can help with dogs that don’t have much emotional control, which can be a driving factor in problems such as reactivity, leash pulling, resource guarding, obsessive behaviours,etc.
Making sure your dog completely switches off when you say so (even around an exciting thing like a toy they’ve just played with) can be hard for them but that’s simply because it’s not a life skill they’ve developed.
This is something I do at the end of every play session to make sure my dogs have clarity when they’re in excited states and still have clear communication when it comes to rules and boundaries.
