Moving on to case study number four, and this is one that might strike a chord with many

of you. And this is my dog this, who was completely disregulated if she saw another dog out on a walk.

It didn't matter how close or how far she lost her mind.

All of the hackles on the back of her neck would come up. She would scream, not just bark,

scream. She would try to get in behind me. If the dog came anywhere near us, she would lunge and snap.

It was anarchy. And so, how often did I allow

that to rehearse? Like maybe once? And then I went and journaled. This is the

dysregulation I'm seeing. What can I do? Now, back then, we didn't realize the impact of her nutrition. She had great

nutrition. She just didn't have great nutrition for her. So, that would have solved a lot of

problems and would have taken me a lot faster to help her become more regulated around dogs.

But here's what the co-regulation looked like. Number one, I never took her

for a walk where there would be any dogs around our property. Yes. Did I take her where there were

other dogs? Absolutely. But I never took her on a path or a street where she would have to see other

dogs. What I would do, I would take her to a place

where I knew they were dogs, but I also knew I could get like hundreds of meters away from them.

So I would go to a park on Lake Ontario and I would sit on a bench with a little dog bed

and I'd bring a book and I would give her a big meaty bone. So the dogs were all long way away and she was just learning

and she was just chewing on her bone. Am I helping her to self-regulate? Trick question. No, I'm not.

I'm co-regulating by the distance away from the other dogs and by giving her something that's

really amazing for her,

would there be a little bit of classical conditioning? I'm chewing on this and dogs are walking by.

I don't think so because the dogs are really too far away. So, we would do that and eventually,

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