Mastering Dog Recall with Long Line Training

Dog Recall Training: Fun and Effective Techniques

The best way to train your reactive dog is not to distract them, not to assert dominance, and definitely not punishing, correcting, or shouting at your dog. Reactive dog training methods based on distraction and redirection fail. Here’s why: Imagine luring your dog away with a cookie every time a person or dog comes too close… It’s not sustainable. Do you really want to distract your dog every single time you come across another person or dog? It won’t work every time. One day, you come across a

The best way to train your reactive dog is not to distract them, not to assert dominance, and definitely not punishing, correcting, or shouting at your dog. Reactive dog training methods based on distraction and redirection fail. Here’s why: Imagine luring your dog away with a cookie every time a person or dog comes too close… It’s not sustainable. Do you really want to distract your dog every single time you come across another person or dog? It won’t work every time. One day, you come across a

Distracting your reactive dog DOES NOT always work. Redirection is NOT the solution. Here’s why: You do not want to have to lure your dog away with a cookie for the rest of his life… every single time you pass another dog or person, right? Training that relies on distracting and redirecting is prone to fail one day - because we as owners are not perfect and will not always see the trigger before our dog does. And one day you are not fast enough to distract your dog and then… BOOM! 💥 Back to rea