Tips and Tricks for Reactivity with Marcella Ward - Special Guest Speaker
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- In this video Marcella shares her insight on reactivity with tips and tricks to help owners train and manage their dogs who can become fearful and reactive.
Marcella Ward is a Positive Reinforcement Dog Trainer located in Houston, Texas. She owns her own business Dogs Speak Dog Training and also teaches at KraftyK9 Dog Sports. Marcella offers private lessons and group classes for puppies and adults focusing on basic manners and sport foundations as well as dog sports. She has been competing in dog sports since 2007 and currently competes in agility, scentwork, barn hunt, dock diving, frisbee, rally with her border collies. She has dabbled in flyball and herding as well. Marcella’s biggest joy is seeing the growth and journey dogs and their owners have together.
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I especially liked the idea of teaching the dog to respond to the "dog friend" or "dog person" cue! Thank you for sharing it.
good of you to show case another trainer
Wow, I’ve been struggling with my reactive dog and you post a video featuring a trainer who works in my very city! I’m so excited to watch this❤
WEE HEE!
Loved this! Thanks for sharing. My dog is extremely reactive to dogs. So far we are stuck sprinting past dogs that trigger her. While fine, training her to look at me for reward is probably better .
you know what, getting out of the situation you know shes not ready for is a great idea, if the environment is really unpredictable I suggest using a safe space to meet up with someone who can bring a calm relaxed dog who can ignore your dog from a distance and you can play the game where the dog is stationary and not looking at your dog to begin with.
@@kikopup This is a great idea! Thank you! I think I watched a video where you demonstrated this. Now to find a calm dog.
I’ve learned & been practicing these tools with our dog reactive dog with one exception. I’ve never heard of identifying the trigger like how you say “there’s a dog friend”. What is the thought process behind this? Thank you!
you can do this 1 so the dog knows what to do in the situation 2 you can make the association at home with no stranger, so its a positive event and use the cue with friends, then you can use it with strangers out and about so the dog is seeing it as a similar situation. Rather than being concerned about the stranger. I personally believe letting dogs see us react to the thing they are concerned about can help them, because if you have a trusting relationship with your dog your dog can look to you for guidance, and you can tell them, oh that persons fine. This is Emily responding. I am sure Marcella could add something insightful
@@kikopup In addition to everything you said, I think it's also nice because when the other person (or dog owner, in the case of a "dog friend") hears these friendly terms, that are delivered with a happy tone of voice, they may be less likely to be upset about any reactivity that may still happen to occur. It's a great way to show people that dogs that behave reactively are not "bad dogs".
Question for the trainers: Is anyone studying reactivity in dogs? Is it a genetic predisposition? Trauma during adolescence?
most believe it to be as you said or a combination. I think it was a Jessica Hekman lecture where she was describing that even the mom going through trauma in her life or while the puppies in the womb , epigenetics and genetics as well as the first 8 weeks. Often times if you go looking you will find relatives with similar issues. Sometimes if you breed two friendly dogs, they can puppies can inherit the genes from the grandparent or great grandparent who had antisocial tendencies and abnormal behavior. thats why its not good to breed a dog who you dont know their history.
My dog has decided to resource guard me against my husband. She is getting increasingly aggressive. We have her on meds, but we are in the middle of heartworm treatment (we adopted her about 2 months ago) and she is leashed or crated all of the time and I think that is making things worse. She loves my husband as long as he stays still when I am home. When I am not here, she is fine with him. My vet is concerned that it may be time to surrender her. My husband, even more than me, doesn't want to give up on her, but the heartworm treatment is so expensive that I don't have anything for a trainer or behaviorist. Any suggestions for this situation or recommendations?
This is Emily Larlham responding, I do have this 17 page protocol on resource guarding - dogmantics.com/resource-guarding-protocol/ I am so sorry you are dealing with this. And yes behaviors can get magnified when a dog is not well. You could also do a blood panel and see if there are any other issues, im guessing the vet did that as well. Perhaps contact the rescue to tell them about what is going on, they might have some behavioral history on the dog. If its something that is just starting that never happened before and the dog is over 3 it could be medical too.