At H&H, we take a psychological approach to training from a dogs point of view. We specialize is healing and rehabilitation for K9 aggression and reactivity.
05/02/2025
✨You know that your dog IS reactive, but do you really understand WHY⁉️✨
Let's talk about reactivity and suppressing emotions:
☆Reactivity is your dog's way of communicating how they are feeling about a particular stimulus or trigger. They might overreact toward another dog or person because they are scared, upset, nervous, frustrated—yeah, even excited.😵💫
These reactions negatively affect the dog's mental, emotional, and physical health. Therefore, we should focus on healing and helping them work through their issues so they can live a happy and healthy life; it's about quality of life.
☆Suppressing emotions happens when we use correction-based training that scares the dog into behaving (aka alpha theory training).
This does not solve the underlying problem; it often causes more fear-based problems later.
Unfortunately, the dog is forced to stay calm for fear of pain. What's even more unfortunate is that people take this as their dog being "obedient" when, in reality, they are being forced to behave out of fear.
👉We don't use fear, intimidation, or pain in parenting, so why do we tolerate it in dog training? .. I'd really like to know‼️
- Enjoy this video of Ashley and the handler making a positive change in this dog's life. Yes, the road may be a little longer, but the journey is worth it. At the end of the day, we're talking about a life.🙌🏼 ✌🏼
One last thing.. HAPPY FRIDAY!! 👊🏼
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