Nervous Dog Videos

RECOVERY TIME

This is the most important thing to remember when your dog reacts to something. Get to a safe place at a distance enough away from what has triggered them to recover. The more time and patience you spend with this exercise the less time your dog needs to recover and this tells you they are increasing their tolerance levels and ability to cope.

The measure of reactivity is not that they react. It’s important for dogs to express themselves. The measure of reactivity is how slowly or quickly they recover. The quicker the more robust and the more able they are to self-regulate. We, as humans can work on this with them to help them to recover and to slf-regulate.