What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the No Bad Dogs podcast with me Tom Davis

Thank you so much for joining me today. I appreciate every single person listening all over the world

Today's episode is going to be very applicable and hopefully very helpful to all of

you out at home. We're going to talk about having people over to your house and or walking

outside with your reactive dog and how to stay safe and stress free.

Because that's one of the hardest things and I think the biggest things for dog owners who have dogs who are stressed.

The dog's stressed, you're stressed, you don't want to have people over,

you can't have people over, what should you do, what's realistic expectations. These are all

the things that I work through every single day of my life with my clients and we're going to talk about that

and make this whole podcast about that. First thing is safety and expectations.

Dog owners are often just on the edge of, well, I'm having my friends over later.

My dog is a little bit fearful.

My dogs can be reactive, or my dog is just downright mean and aggressive and we don't

want know what to do. You guys have to realize that I talked about this many

many times before but you can't change personality but you can change behavior.

So when we talk about dogs not liking people and that's just the way they are,

if that's something that you've found or discovered, that's okay.

Some of you may have been working on reactivity or behavior now for over

a year with your dog and you've realized that hey you know what my dog just

doesn't like other people and that's not going to change or your dog

doesn't like new people and that's not going to change and that's the personality

of the dog that's how they are that's how they're wired it's how it's going to be

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