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No Bad Dogs Podcast

E342-The Dog That’s Reactive AND Terrified — What Can You Do?

No Bad Dogs Podcast

Tom Davis

Pets & Animals, Education, How To, Kids & Family

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Tom speaks with a dog owner that has a super reactive dog that is also very fearful of a lot of stuff and will shut down... Is it actually fear or is the dog being a brat?



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0:00.0

Hello everybody. Welcome back to the No Bad Dogs podcast. This is an excellent podcast. I mean,

0:05.3

when I say excellent, I mean it. We go over, uh, this is one of those podcasts I just haven't done

0:11.8

in a while. I feel like where a dog owner is having severe issues and is completely lost and

0:16.0

doesn't really know where to start. I think you guys are really, really, really going to like

0:20.1

this, um, this podcast. It's absolutely packed with, uh, some incredible information about where to start, um, with, with your dog training and, and having a reactive dog, having a dog that won't get into the car, feeling like you've done everything. We've done, you know, four other trainers and behaviorists. We've got medication on board and we just don't know what direction to go.

0:39.7

This is a really, uh, just, in my opinion, an incredible podcast. So enjoy this podcast, guys.

0:45.6

Thank you so much for listening. And we'll talk to you on the next one. We've had our pup for, he's going to be six in April.

1:00.3

And we rescued him and he was eight weeks old from Second Chance Rescue in June 2020.

1:06.6

We did a ton of socializing all the things that people were worried about during that key pandemic time.

1:11.9

We live in Queens.

1:13.5

Doggy daycare, traveling a lot.

1:16.8

And we noticed, yeah, just around a little bit under a year, he started to be super reactive, like barky, lungy, et cetera.

1:24.8

So what we're at right now, we're still in that same position.

1:29.6

He's incredibly sensitive, incredibly reactive to people, to dogs, to everything.

1:36.4

So it's a huge challenge for us.

1:39.0

But we have done tons of training, went to behavioral that lots of time, money, we'll keep doing it.

1:48.1

I was just going to say, did you get some medication?

1:51.8

We did.

1:52.3

And I would love your opinion on that, too, as we talk more.

1:54.5

But he's been unreconciled the highest dose, the 64 milligrams daily for the past several years.

2:01.6

It does, I think, manage him overall.

2:04.7

His anxiety, I think, is just, it is chiller,

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