What's going on? No Bad Dog Army. Hope you're well. Today I want to talk about exactly what this title says is,

probably the one of the most reactive dogs I've worked with or in a long time. And I thought,

we got a couple good podcasts on deck for you guys. We've got a couple veterinarians and PhD specialists

and how to help dogs live longer. And those are on deck and in the works.

But I wanted to talk to you guys about this dog that I worked with at my recent seminar at the

Upstate Canaan Academy. And if you guys haven't yet, the link is in the description where you can

check out the full YouTube video. But this dog in particular was very unique because the owner had come in with a harness

on the dog, a gentle eater on the dog.

And the dog was so reactive, but then redirective at the same time.

And so when she came into the room, the dog would immediately go into fight mode, pulling, reacting,

lunging.

As soon as the dog felt any type of restriction on the leash from the owner, he would then

turn around and grab the leash, inches from the owner's hands.

And so that's something that I've seen before, but his precision on biting the leash

was just precise.

And so a lot of times we see dogs who are redirective.

And what that comes from, guys, is a, it's a part of frustration.

So a common thing that we see for leash reactive dogs, let's say, again,

they see another dog, they see a person depending on where the reactivity is coming from.

They get so frustrated that they can't get to the thing and then they turn around and grab

the leash and basically take all that frustration. It's like if you've ever been really frustrated and you slam your laptop or, I don't know,

kick a wall or whatever. I don't know. But you get really frustrated, right? Or you scream. You pull your

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