What's going on? No Bad Dog Army. Welcome back to the number one dog training podcast with me, Tom Davis. Today, I'm going to be specifically talking about leash reactivity.

More importantly, why it can happen to anybody, including me with my own personal dogs.

Now, if you guys don't know me, I live and breathe reactivity on the leash.

Like, it is my bread and bother.

I have been traveling the world for over a decade, instructing and teaching on it and helping people all over the world. And so I'm just here to tell you, leash reactivity is something that sometimes

is unavoidable. It sometimes is un-preventable. And sometimes it's neat. You can't even modify it.

You can't get rid of it, right? Like a dog that's pulling on the leash, you can change that. A dog

that won't come back, you can change that. But a dog who has the genetic disposition to be

protective, and it goes against every single cell in their

body to just ignore what they think are going to be potential risks to the things that they care

about, it's not going to go away. So if you have a dog that, you know, maybe is a Rottweiler, a German

shepherd, a borable, a mastive, sometimes these dogs can be extremely protective.

Now there's different shades of reactivity. I just worked with a dog who drove from Michigan to work

with us for a couple of days and the dog was extremely reactive because she was fearful.

She was insecure. She was nervous. She was basically trying to tell everyone

around her to get away because she didn't know how to live her life. And the person who she cared about

the most, which was her owner, also didn't show her how to be a good, she didn't provide good leadership.

Now she does. And the dog couldn't talk. We couldn't have a conversation with this dog in the same room because she barked so much.

She just finished group class after two days and went home happier than a pig and you know what.

So there's different types of reactivity.

But I just want to talk really about people who have tried everything, who have been frustrated for a long time.

There's something I did today with my dog.

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