Reactive dog training 101 | Mike W Lalicich

You don’t have a reactive dog. If you’ve started a new training regimen where you’ve taught your “reactive” dog to watch you and receive a food reward for doing so, and your ex-“reactive” dog is now happily giving you eye contact, taking food, and ignoring the trigger instead of blowing up at the trigger as they typically would, you never had a reactive dog—not in my book—you had an extremely mild, bratty dog who’d been allowed to misbehave without a negative consequence for doing so… and now in