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🗓️ 26 June 2025
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The Truth About Over-Aroused Dogs And What Shapes Their Emotional Responses
Ever had a moment when your dog’s emotions felt bigger than everything else around them? I’m sharing the truth about over-aroused dogs and what shapes their emotional responses. When we understand what’s behind those big reactions, we can better support our dogs and set them and ourselves up for success.
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0:00.0 | Now, my experience with over-rous dogs, I have coached and trained sport dogs. |
0:12.8 | And guess what? A lot of the sport dogs, sports like flyball that I competed at the highest |
0:18.2 | sport, setting world records multiple times over a series of 10 years. |
0:22.6 | Agility where I won world championships at the elite of the sport. I know about over-aroused |
0:29.5 | dogs. I know how they present and I know the mistakes people make because guess what guys? |
0:35.6 | I've made them myself. Okay, so we've got this dog |
0:40.5 | who is like acting out emotionally. Here's the worst thing that people do. Number one is they |
0:48.7 | get tense themselves and they try to hover over the dog. They try to control the dog, right? Like the person saying, |
0:57.6 | you got to calm down. Maybe they put their hands on you when you're getting excited. You got to |
1:01.8 | calm down. Don't you, don't you tell me how I have to be. Okay, so hovering over the dog, |
1:07.8 | they get all their muscles tight. They may actually then try to |
1:13.4 | yell at the dog or scold them and tell them, no, you got to stalk that or worse yet, |
1:18.5 | they might like correct the dog, give them a collar correction, scold the dog. |
1:23.5 | All of that is like putting gasoline on a fire and And you'll know why, when I share with you, |
1:29.3 | some of the reasons why dogs are over aroused or over excited. Because in many, I would say |
1:37.4 | the vast majority of times, it's not the dog's fault. Okay, so let's go to why. |
1:45.0 | Why are some dogs just prone to be go off? |
1:49.0 | They just go off at the silliest things and other dogs are like, what's wrong with you, Jack? |
1:55.0 | Okay? |
1:56.0 | Number one would be genetics because let's face it, there are some breeds that are higher drive |
2:01.2 | dogs. I happen to like the higher drive dogs, the Jack Russell Terriers and the border collies. |
2:08.9 | There are dogs that just love to go all day. And if you've picked one of those breeds as your |
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