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Reactivity and fixation. Often hand in hand.
While many may be familiar with the staring, hard face, stiff body and possible closed mouth when fixating on a stimuli...there are plenty more signs your dog may be fixating.

Raised hackles/Piloerection....
This can cause a dog to "fluff" up or bristle their tail...it could be in just a few areas, a ridge down the spine or the whole coat. This can certainly happen at many other times too and many of these are not connected to reactivity/fixation.
As with everything in reading your dog...context is everything.
As is the whole picture.

Another sign your dog may be fixating is the lengthening of the whole neck...straining forward while usually not moving the body..... often this is paired with the chest puffing/sticking out and legs anchored well back.
The lengthening and stretching out can accompany a lower or higher neck/head position or just straight out in front.

Peeking is often displayed too.
This is a dogs head moving their head side to side without turning their head.
It can look like they have an invisible tree in front and need to peek around it to see the stimuli....but the body usually stays still.

These are only some of the signs of possible fixation.
There are many more and some dogs will certainly not display them all. Some breeds will never have their hackles raised due to their type of coat...but may certainly have other signs.

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